Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:46 -0700 (PDT)


From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
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
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