Subject: Re: ip addr flush hangs

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:06:30 -0800

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:56:00 -0800
Shirley Ma <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This fix causes a problem for SNMP IPv6 MIBs. It requires to dump all
> interface
> address types unicast/mcast/anycast. I would like suggest to fix the ip
> command to fix the problem.

We changed behavior which unexpectedly broke a pretty core tool
on everyone's system.  I'm not reverting this.

Create instead a new rtnetlink command which can ask for xxx_cast
type addresses on an interface.