From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>, netdev@oss•sgi.com, mbm@alt•org
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4181ED02.1060501@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041028234502.203b42c3.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> People complain about this all the time, yet it is expected
> and intentional behavior.
>
> Just because you "down" the interface does not mean that
> addresses assigned to that interface are no longer assosciated
> with the host system.
>
> If you wish the machine not to respond to any of the interface's
> addresses, you must explicitly delete them from the interface
> address list.
Why would you want this behaviour? If it's configured down, it would
seem that the user is trying to tell the system not to use it :)
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 6:46 Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases Andrew Morton
2004-10-29 6:45 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29 7:10 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-10-29 7:06 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29 7:28 ` Ben Greear
2004-10-29 7:39 ` Andi Kleen
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