On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:06:13 -0800 (PST) ghanta kumar <kumar_gh_2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a strange problem in Linux Kernel 2.4.18. If I > use "ifconfig eth0 down", It is not releasing the IP > address. Still I am able to ping to that IP address. You have to explicitly remove that IP address from the interface. Downing an interface just means that this specific interface will no longer send or receive packets. However if you still have other interfaces up and they receive packets for IP addresses assigned to the downed interface, they will still be received. IP addresses are assosciated with the host, not specific interfaces. - : 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
