In article <233C89823A37714D95B1A891DE3BCE52142454@xch-a.win.zambeel.com> you wrote: > One of us here are trying to remove IP aliases from an eth interface. Doing > a "ifconfig ethx:ALIAS down" seems to bring down all other aliases which had > IP in the same subnet. Before I dig into the code to figure out why, will > s'one help me understand the rationale behind this? I think it is an long standing kernel bug, or better missing feature. The problem is the devinet_ioctl function, which does not work on alais interfaces, But I think it is not enough to fix this, since there is no alias depending state for the link status held in kernel. Consider an alias interface more like a second address than a unique interface. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
