Re: 2.2.15 + IPv6: serious bug when removing aliased interfaces

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 14:09:49 EST


"A month of sundays ago Kurt Roeckx wrote:"
> When I use ifconfig 1.39 (1999-03-18) linked against libc5 on 2.3.99-pre6,
> and try lo:1 down, both lo and lo:1 are gone too.
>
> I still had serveral version here, compiled them, and this is what I get:
>
> 1.432 (1.29 (1997-09-23)) good
> 1.46 (1.35 (1998-08-29)) good, but doesn't show lo:1 when it's up
> 1.47 (1.36 (1998-10-31)) bad
> 1.51 (1.39 (1999-03-18)) bad

Can you look at the diff between ifconfig 1.35 and 1.36 and tell us if
there's anything that looks like a loop across detected aliases? I
noticed the strace showed two ioctl calls where I expected one.

Peter

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