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Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases
From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, mbm@xxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20041028234502.203b42c3.davem@davemloft.net>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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David S. Miller wrote:
People complain about this all the time, yet it is expected
and intentional behavior.

Just because you "down" the interface does not mean that
addresses assigned to that interface are no longer assosciated
with the host system.

If you wish the machine not to respond to any of the interface's
addresses, you must explicitly delete them from the interface
address list.

Why would you want this behaviour? If it's configured down, it would seem that the user is trying to tell the system not to use it :)

Ben


-- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com


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