Re: Deleting an alias causes rest to get deleted

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 02:12:17 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 22:54 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I observe an IP aliasing anomaly that occurs when I try to delete an IP 
> > alias from an interface. That is, when I delete the first address in a 
> > set of IP aliased addresses assigned according to a particular subnet, 
> > rest of the aliases get deleted as well. Check out the below snippet.
> [...]
> > As a side note, when I first asked this question to Stephen Hemminger 
> > (he forwarded me to this mailing list) he also told me that "/In Linux 
> > the interface aliases are really a legacy from the BSD style addressing, 
> > and don't act the same. It is not common practice to use them./" Is that 
> > really the case?
> [...]
> 
> If you didn't give him the full details shown above, it's possible he
> thought you meant alias interfaces such as 'eth0:0'.

Yes, that is what I was assuming by the word 'alias'