Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> Although we should keep the behaviour of ip a a 1.1.1.1/24; ip a d
> 1.1.1.1, what about ip a a 1.1.1.1/24; ip a d 1.1.1.1/16? I think the
> latter should not result in a deletion. We could achieve this by checking
> the prefix length if either the exact-match flag is set or the 
> prefixlength is != 32. This is of course quite minor and only affects
> old iproute2 versions in combination with newer kernels.

It's fine by me as long as the code doesn't get too complex because of it.

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