Re: Arp undo issue in all 2.4 and 2.6 kernel releases

[Brian Haley]

Tim Wright wrote:
> At the point where the system is responding, there should be no
> interfaces with the given IP address and ifconfig confirms this. The IP
> address is not associated with any interface and should not be
> associated with the system either. The sequence of events is "bring up
> the address on one interface, try to bring it up on another alias, bring
> the address down". This isn't an issue of "replying to ARP out the wrong
> interface", it is replying to arp requests when no interfaces on the
> system have that IP address associated.

At no point did you *delete* the address, it's still there.
# ifconfig -a

-Brian
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