David S. Miller wrote:
From: Matyas Koszik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:08:01 +0200 (CEST)
Then it maybe shouldn't affect the flow of packets while the
interface is down - or is it also something people depend on?
Yes, people probably do depend upon it.
Not that my voice
... but it doesn't, so those addresses are treated as local which is bad.
This problem doesn't exist with ipv6 and the patch is based on the solution
found there.
--- linux-2.4.32.orig/net/ipv4/devinet 2004-08-08 01:26:06.0 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.32/net/ipv4/devinet.c 2006-04-11
From: Matyas Koszik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:44:55 +0200 (CEST)
... but it doesn't, so those addresses are treated as local which is bad.
No, shutting down an interface should not remove ipv4 addresses. The
user must explicitly remove them.
This behavior has been around
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
From: Matyas Koszik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:44:55 +0200 (CEST)
... but it doesn't, so those addresses are treated as local which is bad.
No, shutting down an interface should not remove ipv4 addresses. The
user must
From: Matyas Koszik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:08:01 +0200 (CEST)
Then it maybe shouldn't affect the flow of packets while the
interface is down - or is it also something people depend on?
Yes, people probably do depend upon it.
Addresses are owned by the host not a
Addresses are owned by the host not a particular device, even
though they are assosciated with a particular interface.
Linux defaults to using the host based addressing model instead of the
interface based addressing model.
It is true for IPv4, but IPv6 addresses are removed when interface
Addresses are owned by the host not a particular device, even
though they are assosciated with a particular interface.
Linux defaults to using the host based addressing model instead of the
interface based addressing model.
It is true for IPv4, but IPv6 addresses are removed when
From: David Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:33:38 -0700
Addresses are owned by the host not a particular device, even
though they are assosciated with a particular interface.
Linux defaults to using the host based addressing model instead of the
interface based
David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree, it should behave just like ipv4.
AOL
That would've made quite a few races that we had to fix non-existant
by definition :)
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