From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What were the reasons of having mandatory IP address at AX.25 interfaces ?
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:38:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p731w7s4wic.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080204130252.GA2537@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (Matti Aarnio's message of "Mon\, 4 Feb 2008 15\:02\:52 +0200")
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org> writes:
> .. the original reason was apparently that _ifconfig_ blew up
> when it saw protocols that it didn't understand on network
> interfaces. Possibly when there was no IP protocol on an
> interface.
It's not only ifconfig, a lot of programs use SIOCGIFCONF
to query ip addresses.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-04 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-03 18:04 What were the reasons of having IP address at AX.25 interfaces ? Matti Aarnio
[not found] ` <47A60A57.5080402@digitalrealm.net>
2008-02-03 20:28 ` Matti Aarnio
2008-02-04 13:02 ` What were the reasons of having mandatory " Matti Aarnio
2008-02-04 14:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-02-04 15:02 ` Matti Aarnio
2008-03-31 21:50 ` What were the reasons of having " Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2008-03-31 22:08 ` Matti Aarnio
2008-04-01 8:17 ` Thomas Osterried
2008-04-01 9:44 ` Matti Aarnio
2008-04-01 10:37 ` Thomas Osterried
2008-04-01 12:09 ` Bernard Pidoux
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