On (04/22/09 10:15), Erik Nordmark wrote:
>
>> Yes, and that's a valid argument in defense of interface enable/disable.
>> For example, routing daemons like quagga already have code to deal
>> with interface up/down notifications, and have historically had to
>> maintain special code to deal with the "address up/down" state.
>
> What does quagga do with things like the duplicate status in BSD?
> (ifconfig -a reports such things for addresses in BSD AFAIK.)

do you mean "duplicate" as in DAD-duplicate? I've not checked into
this lately (I can find out)..

but afaik, the idea of duplicacy by allowing the same address to be added
on the same interface on a system twice is unique to Solaris.

--Sowmini

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