Phil Oester wrote:
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.
Of course, I wasn't thinking :) Then what about Henrik's suggestion, replacing masq_index by a new status bit ?
Regards Patrick
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