Bug#525012: ifconfig fails to initialize a virtual interface with a zero IP address

[Marco Amadori <amadorim@vdavda.com>]

package: net-tools
severity: important
version: 1.60-23

ifconfig seem to not be able anymore to "deconfigure" a virtual interface.

The Official Manual example [1] in the section 10.6.1.7 does not work anymore 
because of this.

So e.g:
# ifconfig eth0:1 inet 0 up

does not work anymore

As noted in [1] (which is the same bug of this in the ubuntu's bts) I think 
that  dhcp3-client's important bug #275653 is caused by this bug too, so I CC 
it.

[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-
ifupdown
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-tools/+bug/356800
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