Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 14 May 2001 09:42:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: IPv6: the same address can be added multiple times |
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davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller) wrote on 13.05.01 in <15103.18224.265350.877968@pizda.ninka.net>:
> Pekka Savola writes: > > But it still looks dirty. Also, it's easier to add it many times by > > mistake; IPv4 addresses do not allow this. And as you have to remove > > them N times too, this may create even more confusion. > > There is this growing (think growing as in "fungus") set of thinking > that just because something can be misused, this is an argument > against it even existing.
But that does not seem to be the argument here. Rather, it is "I can certainly see where this can cause harm, but I cannot see where it is useful for anything at all, so why do we have it?".
> I think this is wrong. I'm seeing it a lot, especially on this list, > and it's becomming a real concern at least to me. > > Most of the time the argument goes like: > > 1: "Well, we allow this because you can do usefull things X Y and > Z as a result."
What is X, Y and Z in this particular case? Nobody seems to have said that.
Incidentally, this thread is *very* similar to the "mount the exact same FS several times on the exact same mountpoint" thing. I'd expect to get a similar resolution (i.e., *don't* allow that).
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