On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Neil Horman wrote:
Can anyone tell me why when removing a primary ip address from an interface, all of its associated secondary ip addresses (those addresses on the same subnet), are also removed? Theres a comment in the kernel thats pretty clear on the subject indicating it needs to be done, but I don't quite grasp the reasoning behind why.
A more valid question is why one can not add more than one primary in the same subnet.
ip addr add x.x.x.x/y dev eth0 primary
would make sense to me, clearly indicating that these addresses are maintained separately.
or put in another way why the addresses automatically become secondary addresses to the first added address.
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