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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: netdev discussion list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why does promote_secondaries default to off?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:33:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4787A863.3060506@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080111172641.GA22449@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> [2008.01.11.1813 +0100]:
>> There is a tweak in /proc/sys which activate secondaries promotion when a 
>> primary is deleted.
>>
>> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/promote_secondaries
>>
>> I think it changes the behavior to the one you wish.
> 
> Totally. That would have been the last place I had looked.
> Thank you!
> 
> Do you have any idea why this isn't on by default?

This tweak is "recent" (2.6.16 as far as I remember), so I suppose the 
reason is to not puzzled people with a changed default behavior.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-11 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 16:31 iproute2: removing primary address removes secondaries martin f krafft
2008-01-11 17:13 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-11 17:26   ` why does promote_secondaries default to off? (was: iproute2: removing primary address removes secondaries) martin f krafft
2008-01-11 17:33     ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2008-01-11 17:43       ` why does promote_secondaries default to off? martin f krafft
2008-01-12  1:59 ` iproute2: removing primary address removes secondaries David Miller

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