On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:51:04PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Hmm, this is not what I had expected! Notice the addresses don't match
> the configuration: 212.254.26.75 is an alias now, and 212.254.26.66
> is not an alias anymore! At least the netmasks and broadcast addresses
> did not change...

Why do they not match the configuration? The kernel doesn't really have
a concept of "aliases", just multiple addresses on an interface. I'm not
sure why the order changed, but a program which depends on the order is
clearly buggy.

Joerg