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

[Thomas Graf]

* Tim Wright <timw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2006-12-01 11:37
> [root@nfstest root]# ifconfig eth0:6 10.12.0.22 netmask 255.255.0.0 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

You could please also provide a strace -e ioctl so we cann see what
ifconfig is trying to do exactly. Address changes are only propagated
to the local route table if successful.

Anyways, in general this interface is deprecated, you should use
'ip addr add/remove ...] instead of interface aliases.
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