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.
next prev parent 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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