Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:01:04 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:08 +1300 From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
OK, I'm a liar -- bind does handle this. Cool.
Standard BSD allows it, what do you expect :-)
This is good news, because it means there is a precedent for multiple addresses on a single interface so we can kill the <ifname>:<n> syntax in favor of the above which is cleaner of more accurately represents what is happening.
If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make this, no sooner.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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