Subject: Re: /sbin/ifup
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/30/2003 18:35:13
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Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

> Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
>
>>   I think that "ifconfig XXX delete" is enough to remove all of the IP
>> addresses. True?
[...]
> One could delete down to bare link-local addresses
> and build up, but this will cause a lot more thrashing of programs
> that track addresses.

It causes a lot more thrashing even for programs that doesn't keep track of
adresses because in current they get ECONNRESET when the (ipv4) address is
removed. Now, I think that is a somewhat incontinent, but that is a
diffrent issue.

Love


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