Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> So we've noticed, and taken issue with this behavior.
> 
> If you have several IP aliases on an interface (eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2) you
> get inconsistent behavior when downing them.
> 
> * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:1, I am left with eth0:0 and eth0:2
> * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:0, eth0:1 and eth0:2 go away, too

This was reported ages ago too.

should only do a down of it with an AF_INET socket.  Some
versions of ifconfig did it with a socket of the wrong type,
which resulted in the whole interface going down.

Which version of ifconfig (nettools) are you using?

Kurt