Re: ip addr flush hangs

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:25:29AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:07:30 +0100
> Olaf Kirch <okir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The attached patch disables reporting of multicast and anycast
> > addresses in inet6_dump_ifaddr
> 
> Better to fix /sbin/ip, Andi Kleen posted a patch for that tool
> in a thread on linux-kernel about this very issue.

The patch was buggy unfortunately - it fixed one case, but broke another.
Fixing the root cause like Olaf proposes is better.

-Andi