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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:46 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
   Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:01:45 -0700
   
   > Again - if you do not like this behaviour do not use the primary/secondary
   > addressing scopes. Use /32.
   
   Why should user-land be forced to work around what is obviously (to the
   vast majority of people in this discussion) a mis-feature?

You have to understand how routing works to setup IP, we're deeply
sorry about that.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com