Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:29:05 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> |
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
I'm hoping that I can get a few comments on this code. It was added to (significantly) speed up things like 'ifconfig -a' when running with 4000 or so VLAN devices. It should also help other instances with lots of (virtual) devices, like FrameRelay, ATM, and possibly virtual IP interfaces. It probably won't help 'normal' users much, and in it's final form, should probably be a selectable option in the config process.
Virtual IP interfaces in the form of ifname:<number> (e.g. eth:1) IMO should be deprecated and removed completely in 2.5.x. It's an ugly external wart that should be removed.
That said, if this was done -- how would things like routing daemons and bind cope? Actually, when I think about it they can't cope with situating like this now:
tapu:~# ip addr show lo 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 3904 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet 10.0.0.1/32 scope global lo
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