Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all

Kurt Roeckx (Q@ping.be)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:00:16 +0200


On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:36:40PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > So we've noticed, and taken issue with this behavior.
> >
> > If you have several IP aliases on an interface (eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2) you
> > get inconsistent behavior when downing them.
> >
> > * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:1, I am left with eth0:0 and eth0:2
> > * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:0, eth0:1 and eth0:2 go away, too

Oops, I seem to have responded a little too fast.

It used to be, if you ifconfig down eth0:1, that eth0, eth0:2
were gone too.

If you down eth0:0, does eth0 go down too?

Kurt

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