netdev - Re: Deleting an alias causes rest to get deleted

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2012 02:12:17 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yazici@...il.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Deleting an alias causes rest to get deleted

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 22:54 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I observe an IP aliasing anomaly that occurs when I try to delete an IP 
> alias from an interface. That is, when I delete the first address in a 
> set of IP aliased addresses assigned according to a particular subnet, 
> rest of the aliases get deleted as well. Check out the below snippet.
[...]
> As a side note, when I first asked this question to Stephen Hemminger 
> (he forwarded me to this mailing list) he also told me that "/In Linux 
> the interface aliases are really a legacy from the BSD style addressing, 
> and don't act the same. It is not common practice to use them./" Is that 
> really the case?
[...]

If you didn't give him the full details shown above, it's possible he
thought you meant alias interfaces such as 'eth0:0'.

Ben.

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