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
This was reported ages ago too.
>From what I remember, because eth0:x is an AF_INET hack only, you
should only do a down of it with an AF_INET socket. Some
versions of ifconfig did it with a socket of the wrong type,
which resulted in the whole interface going down.
Which version of ifconfig (nettools) are you using?
Kurt
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