Re: IP_ALIAS bug in 2.2.x

From: Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Date: Sat May 27 2000 - 13:40:43 EST


>The current work around I have is to add a test to the ifconfig code
>that stops it choosing an AF_INET6 socket if it can avoid it. This will
>be in the next test cycle for the net-tools, I understand.

Please try <ftp://ftp.futuretv.com/pub/phil/net-tools-20000527.tar.gz>.

This doesn't actually include your patch, but it does have a hack to try to
avoid using a non-INET socket to down an aliased interface. I'd be interested
to hear both good and bad feedback.

p.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed May 31 2000 - 21:00:18 EST