From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7 net-2.6.25] [IPV4]: Prohibit assignment of 0.0.0.0 as interface address. Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:34:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20080125083404.5f3c6176@deepthought> References: <1201269123-20378-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> <1201269123-20378-3-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Denis V. Lunev" Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([216.93.170.194]:42816 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753352AbYAYQeQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:34:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1201269123-20378-3-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:51:59 +0300 "Denis V. Lunev" wrote: > I could hardly imagine why sombady needs to assign 0.0.0.0 as an interface > address or interface destination address. The kernel will behave in a strage > way in several places if this is possible, as ifa_local != 0 is considered > as initialized/non-initialized state of the ifa. > > Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev > This is used as a way to bring device up in lots of existing documentation. So please don't change. -- Stephen Hemminger