Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:05:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:05:38 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:32640 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:05:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20011025.125646.59654205.davem@redhat.com> To: thockin@sun.com Cc: mgm@paktronix.com, david@blue-labs.org, cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, ja@ssi.bg, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3BD86FA9.A992FE96@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <3BD86FA9.A992FE96@sun.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tim Hockin Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:01:45 -0700 > Again - if you do not like this behaviour do not use the primary/secondary > addressing scopes. Use /32. Why should user-land be forced to work around what is obviously (to the vast majority of people in this discussion) a mis-feature? You have to understand how routing works to setup IP, we're deeply sorry about that. Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/