Hello Oron, Nice to hear from You. The only thing I can say is that when I add secondary address to eth or dummy with ifconfig (not ifup script) it adds route entry, and only with loopback it does not.
-- Semion Lisyansky >From: Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Semion Lisyansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: secondary address on loopback >Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:58:54 +0300 > >On Mon, 20 May 2002 06:08:46 +0300 >"Semion Lisyansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would someone please explain me why when I > > add secondary address to loopback interface > > by either as a secondary or by "ip addr add" > > it does not add route entry in routing table? > >Why should it? For routes use "ip route add" >This is equivalent to the older "ifconfig" and "route" commands. >The first defines the interface (ip address) and the second >defines routes. > >Unix doesn't try to infer routes from interface definitions. >Sometimes the vendor boot scripts (e.g: RedHat "ip-up" scripts) >do both actions, so it looks to you as an automatic mechanism. > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > >c:\winnt> secure_nt.exe > Securing NT. Insert Linux boot disk to continue...... > --David Brumley -- Semion Lisyansky _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
