On Wednesday 03 November 2004 21:03, David S. Miller wrote: > If they don't have knowledge about each other, how can registry > of an IP address fail in the first place then? Something has > to reject it. > That's what I am talking about all the time. The IP addresses _are_ rejected by the hardware, if they are already in use by another OS image. And this is the reason why setting an IP address on s390 can fail. -- Regards, Thomas. - : 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
