Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700

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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