Re: Deleting an alias causes rest to get deleted

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 02:12:17 +0100
Ben Hutchings [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 22:54 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote:

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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.

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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?

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

Yes, that is what I was assuming by the word 'alias'