From: Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
To: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
Cc: Andrea G Forte <andreaf@cs.columbia.edu>,
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: primary and secondary ip addresses
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:03:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412172003.22319.hasso@estpak.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412171736210.17463@filer.marasystems.com>
Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andrea G Forte wrote:
> > This does not help, since if I want to use my secondary IP address
> > instead of my primary, I cannot delete the primary otherwise all of my
> > secondary IPs are lost as well (and since I can only have only one
> > primary IP address).
>
> Why change the primary address? What is wrong with simply changing the
> route to use the other source IP?
There is no support for it in most of user space software. None of the
routing protocols suites support it etc.
--
Hasso Tepper
Elion Enterprises Ltd.
WAN administrator
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-17 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411100034320.10593@filer.marasystems.com>
2004-12-16 9:28 ` primary and secondary ip addresses Harald Welte
2004-12-16 9:53 ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-16 10:07 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-16 11:02 ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-16 16:02 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 15:10 ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 15:27 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 15:58 ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 16:39 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 17:17 ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 19:17 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 18:03 ` Hasso Tepper [this message]
2004-12-17 18:37 ` Martin A. Brown
2004-12-17 18:53 ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-17 19:25 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-17 20:55 ` Hasso Tepper
2004-12-17 20:54 ` Andrea G Forte
2004-12-17 19:20 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 19:48 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-19 20:18 ` jamal
2004-12-19 21:41 ` Harald Welte
2004-12-19 22:02 ` Thomas Graf
2004-12-19 22:59 ` jamal
2004-12-19 23:56 ` jamal
2004-12-20 13:55 ` jamal
2004-12-20 14:29 ` Harald Welte
2005-04-12 10:54 ` Harald Welte
2005-05-08 12:31 ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-26 18:11 ` Harald Welte
2005-05-26 18:21 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-26 21:58 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-16 16:48 ` Paul Jakma
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