-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 October 2003 18:15, Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.si wrote: > > > it does not release assigned address until one set ip manually to > > > 0.0.0.0 > > I know, but you're in for a real headache if you're trying to reach an ip > > somewhere else which has previously been used on the computer you're on. > > Besides, where's the logic in being able to use a down interface. Why > > have an if up/down at all then? > indeed it seems pointless, yet it was not indended so - or so i perceive > it... i just posted the solution for which i banged my head for couple of > hours until ifconfig -a showed me that interface was still holding that > address... > and as that machine is router it was unable to reach that address from > private network also Sounds pretty much what I experienced. One sysadmin here had been testing some loopback routing through fiber and fwa. A couple of days later I needed to set up the network for an external customer. I couldn't reach the server, though I got ping replies. Couldn't see any echo requests etc. on the receiving server's nic. I couldn't figure out what was going on until I noticed the 0ms replies and got suspicious. Anyway, I just figured this obviously had to be a bug and felt like barfing here. - -- Regards, Tais M. Hansen OSD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/iHPi2BZXMzjXS6URAgGTAKDS/GgwYcs1ssKcUSApOLkcjVV5jACfXJMH GA7USV8agttCXSxoqhISgOg= =cixq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : 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
