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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
	David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
	Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:14:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD6F701.32E34BA5@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110241534.f9OFYnL14565@www.hockin.org>

Tim Hockin wrote:
> 
> > > Switch to 'ip' instead of 'ifconfig', several large distros now include
> > > it.  Addresses can be added and removed completely indiscriminately on
> > > interfaces.
> > >
> > > The "ethN:X" is a legacy design that is now deprecated.
> >
> > Minor issue...if I create (using 'ip') two addresses on the same subnet on the
> > same device, one of them is primary and the other is secondary.  If I then
> > delete the primary address, the second one goes with it.
> >
> > I submit that this is bad behaviour.
> 
> This is the same behavior for which I am proposing fixing.  The origin of
> the thread, if you will.

Yes, precisely.  I was rebutting David Ford's statement above about addresses
being added and removed indiscriminately using 'ip' but not using aliases.

Chris

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-24 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-24  1:01 issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all Julian Anastasov
2001-10-24  5:28 ` David Ford
2001-10-24  6:18   ` Petr Titera
2001-10-24  6:52     ` David Ford
2001-10-24 12:48     ` Wilson
2001-10-25 16:34     ` Matthew G. Marsh
2001-10-24  8:19   ` Julian Anastasov
2001-10-24 14:02   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-24 15:34     ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-24 17:14       ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2001-10-24 20:36     ` David Ford
2001-10-24 20:54       ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-27 17:26         ` kuznet
2001-10-25 17:40       ` Matthew G. Marsh
2001-10-25 20:01         ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-25 19:56           ` David S. Miller
2001-10-25 20:29           ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-23 17:54 Tim Hockin
2001-10-24 11:36 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-10-24 12:00   ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-10-25 16:30 ` Matthew G. Marsh
2001-10-26 19:51   ` Michal Jaegermann

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