netdev - Re: add ip to interface as primary ip address, not secondary ip when there is alreadly primary ip?

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Date:	Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:29:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: add ip to interface as primary ip address, not secondary ip
 when there is alreadly primary ip?

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 at 22:31 GMT, Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@...il.com> wrote:
>
> ideally though, we would like to have the capability in
> kernel/userspace  to specify a flag or something to add any ip as
> primary even if there is already existing primary ip address (could
> downgrade the existing primary to secondary ip). does this make sense
> ?

'ip addr' already has flags for this.

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