Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:12:09 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> |
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:32:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code, assuming we need named if addresses for other reasons too, which we do) and removing it it would break a lot of configuration scripts etc., for no really good gain.
It's ugly and deceptive -- eth0:0 is _not_ a separate device to eth0, so why pretend it is?
Yes, FIXING this wart will break stuff, that is part of the reason we have development cycles. Applications that break need fixing anyhow, as DaveM says BSD support multiple addresses per interface anyhow, so perhaps not many applications will break at all -- I've not really checked.
2.5.x seems like an excellent time to FIX this. I guess the final decision is that of DaveM and Alexey.
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