> I can't answer that but we do support it. And the system will weather the issue, right?
> It sounds like you're in favour of just noting this is flawed > and moving on as there doesn't seem to be anything useful > that can be done here, either way, yes? Yes. It seems fairly obvious to me that changing the interface index of an actively used interface will lead to confusion. For instance, an application may have previously mapped a given interface name into an interface index, and then used one of a number of ioctls to bind itself to that index. If someone reassociates that interface index with a different interface, the application won't know and it will use the wrong interface. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
