> "A month of sundays ago Pekka Savola wrote:"
> > I just found a serious bug in 2.2.15 (probably also previous versions,
> > didn't check) w/ IPv6 and IP Aliasing support compiled in.
>
> This is a "bug" that I've mentioned a few times now. The standard
> answer here is that it's meant to be that way, use a 255.255.255.255
> netmask in the ifconfig command, use other if tools, ...
If this was the case regardless of IPv6, it _might_ be considered a
Microsoft-ish "feature".
Because the this only happens with IPv6, it is an obvious bug. In
addition, about 99.9% of people are using commands like 'ifconfig eth0:5
up' and [down]. It should go right by default.
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