On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> Hello!
...snip... a very fine description of what is happening .
Ah, Now for the meat of what is going on . OK, Now I begin
understand why things looked UP but yet showed down . Tnx, JimL
> Seems, the confusion is related to the fact, that interface has two modes
> looking absolutely similarly (except for entry in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/):
> no IP and addressless IP. ifconfig 0.0.0.0 makes it addressless,
> magic sequence with adding and deleting ?rap really disables IP.
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