| To: | Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: primary and secondary ip addresses |
| From: | Hasso Tepper <hasso@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:03:22 +0200 |
| Cc: | Andrea G Forte <andreaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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| Organization: | Elion Enterprises Ltd. |
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Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andrea G Forte wrote: > > This does not help, since if I want to use my secondary IP address > > instead of my primary, I cannot delete the primary otherwise all of my > > secondary IPs are lost as well (and since I can only have only one > > primary IP address). > > Why change the primary address? What is wrong with simply changing the > route to use the other source IP? There is no support for it in most of user space software. None of the routing protocols suites support it etc. -- Hasso Tepper Elion Enterprises Ltd. WAN administrator |
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