On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:05:38PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > But without the ifindex comparison, a situation like this can happen: > > ppp0 goes down > ppp1 goes down > ppp0 comes up again, same IP as before > ppp1 connections get killed > ppp1 comes up again > > So we should keep this. But ifindex is meaningless on ppp interfaces - it is incremented on each cycle. So there is no way to say that the original ppp1 is the same interface as the new ppp1. ifindex just cannot be used reliably. Phil - : 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
