Bug#40346: Reassigning 8 years old still present bug
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:10:05AM -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> reassign 40346 linux-2.6
> thanks
>
> Hi, this could be strange, but this 5-digits bug is still open.
> Summary: removing a aliased interface doesn't kill existing
> connections.
>
> I can reproduce it, but it doesn't seem to be net-tools fault, as the
> interface is correctly removed (ifconfig and ip a l doesn't list it
> anymore). I'm not even sure if this is a bug or not, but I think it's
> up to kernel maintainers to decide on that.
This is often explained on linux-net in the last time. It is due to linux
host (instead of interface) based addressing model. You need to remove the
address instead of downing the interface. Removing is not currently
supported by ifconfig for ipv4. So it is somewhat a net-tools bug.
Gruss
Bernd
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