From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4181ED02.1060501@candelatech.com> References: <20041028234649.2d4ed3b8.akpm@osdl.org> <20041028234502.203b42c3.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , netdev@oss.sgi.com, mbm@alt.org Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20041028234502.203b42c3.davem@davemloft.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > People complain about this all the time, yet it is expected > and intentional behavior. > > Just because you "down" the interface does not mean that > addresses assigned to that interface are no longer assosciated > with the host system. > > If you wish the machine not to respond to any of the interface's > addresses, you must explicitly delete them from the interface > address list. Why would you want this behaviour? If it's configured down, it would seem that the user is trying to tell the system not to use it :) Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com