Hi Marcus, On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:05:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: zeroconf > Version: 0.3-1 > Severity: wishlist > > It would be useful if the link-local address was added in such a way > that the original address is still the "primary" address which shows > up in "ifconfig". This is usually more interesting than the link-local > address.
Can you suggest a method to do this? I know of none. I am using the 'ip addr add' mechanism to add the additional address, in the future I will directly use a netlink socket. This will cause the same behavious to occur. The kernel is aware of the 'primary' address and chains any other address onto the interface. In fact from linux 2.6.12 onwards, it will automagically remove all secondary addresses. I believe this to be a bug with the 'ifconfig' tool - I recommend that instead you you 'ip addr' which is in the iproute package. You may wish to re-assign this bug to the ifconfig program. Thanks, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
