On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:39:20 +0200 Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> wrote: > On 2003-08-19T08:34:38, > "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said: > > > There are two valid ways the RFCs allow systems to handle > > IP addresses. > > > > 1) IP addresses are owned by "the host" > > 2) IP addresses are owned by "the interface" > > > > Linux does #1, many systems do #2, both are correct. > > Yes, both are "correct" in the sense that the RFC allows this > interpretation. The _sensible_ interpretation for practical networking > however is #2, and the only persons who seem to believe differently are > those in charge of the Linux network code... And, as Alan said, we provide a way for one to obtain your networking religion of week. Changing the default is not an option, that would undoubtedly break things. - : 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
