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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ip addr flush hangs
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:06:30 -0800
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:56:00 -0800
Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> This fix causes a problem for SNMP IPv6 MIBs. It requires to dump all
> interface
> address types unicast/mcast/anycast. I would like suggest to fix the ip
> command to fix the problem.

We changed behavior which unexpectedly broke a pretty core tool
on everyone's system.  I'm not reverting this.

Create instead a new rtnetlink command which can ask for xxx_cast
type addresses on an interface.