Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:36:40 +0200 | From | Kurt Roeckx <> | Subject | Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all |
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > So we've noticed, and taken issue with this behavior. > > If you have several IP aliases on an interface (eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2) you > get inconsistent behavior when downing them. > > * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:1, I am left with eth0:0 and eth0:2 > * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:0, eth0:1 and eth0:2 go away, too
This was reported ages ago too.
>From what I remember, because eth0:x is an AF_INET hack only, you should only do a down of it with an AF_INET socket. Some versions of ifconfig did it with a socket of the wrong type, which resulted in the whole interface going down.
Which version of ifconfig (nettools) are you using?
Kurt
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