Hi Anand, Anand Kumria wrote: > There are plenty of people who still use ifconfig to list the addresses > assigned to their network interfaces (I know, ifconfig is broken) and > who then parse the output. > > However the kernel puts link-local scoped address first if the address > list of an interface, so an interface like:
> Is there any reason to put the link-local address first in the list? > > I've had a number of bugreports (or outright panic attacks) where the > problem turned out to be that ifconfig was reporting the link-local > address first, rather than the global/site one. This can be worked around by defining an "alias interface" this way "ip address add 169.254.182.108/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope link dev eth0 label eth0:0" (see: "label eth0:0" is appended) So in reality this is no problem for users. Regards Ingo Oeser - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
