From: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
To: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iproute equivalent of replacing address with ifconfig?
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 21:24:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150518182429.GA894@angus-think.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHA+R7Phpe3-ceX=zgWttfhguGWmBx9QQBtCyaGV6C3GOSdu9w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:46:58AM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> >
> > ip addr command however does not have the ability to "replace"
> > an address, there are two commands for that, del and add.
> > So in order to change address, one have to delete and add,
> > a two-step process. Adding an address before deleting might
> > not work as the new address should not conflict with old
> > address in any way, or else addition fails.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> $ ip addr help
> Usage: ip addr {add|change|replace} IFADDR dev STRING [ LIFETIME ]
> [ CONFFLAG-LIST ]
Ha, but man page does not have it :)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 14:03 iproute equivalent of replacing address with ifconfig? Michael Tokarev
2015-05-18 17:46 ` Cong Wang
2015-05-18 18:13 ` Michael Tokarev
2015-05-18 18:24 ` Vadim Kochan [this message]
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