Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:38:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: Some tests (Was: Probable bug in handling disabled network interfaces (2.2.12)) |
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Hello Alexey,
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > Hello! ...snip... a very fine description of what is happening .
Ah, Now for the meat of what is going on . OK, Now I begin understand why things looked UP but yet showed down . Tnx, JimL
> Seems, the confusion is related to the fact, that interface has two modes > looking absolutely similarly (except for entry in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/): > no IP and addressless IP. ifconfig 0.0.0.0 makes it addressless, > magic sequence with adding and deleting ?rap really disables IP. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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