Daniel Lezcano wrote: > Denis V. Lunev wrote: >> I could hardly imagine why sombady needs to assign 0.0.0.0 as an >> interface >> address or interface destination address. The kernel will behave in a >> strage >> way in several places if this is possible, as ifa_local != 0 is >> considered >> as initialized/non-initialized state of the ifa. > > AFAICS, we should be able to set at an interface address to 0.0.0.0, in > order to remove an IP address from an interface and keep this one up. > I see two trivial cases: > * remove the ipv4 on an interface but continue to use it through ipv6 > * move ipv4 address from the interface to an attached bridge
For this case there is an IOCTL/netlink "remove IP address". -- 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
