David Miller wrote:
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
Can you guys please just state upfront what virtualization
issue is made more difficult by features you want to remove?
Sorry, I mentioned virtualization because that's been the
largest
Hi All
Does anyone have a reason why Linux allows one to configure
the same IP or IPv6 address on multiple interfaces?
For IPv4, since linux implements a weak host model, assigning
duplicate addresses doesn't make any sense, since the addresses
really belong to the host and not the interface.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/29/2007 11:03:37 AM:
So, I am looking for technical reasons why this is permitted.
Vlad,
Is there a technical reason to disallow it? Rather than
anticipate all the possible uses for a machine, it's, of course,
generally better to restrict only the things
For v6, there are plenty of operational reasons to not allow this. You
really
turn unicast into anycast when you do this and there are special rules
to
be followed.
I don't see it that way. The only problem I can think of offhand
is that you can't use a multi-interface address to
David Stevens wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/29/2007 11:03:37 AM:
So, I am looking for technical reasons why this is permitted.
Vlad,
Is there a technical reason to disallow it? Rather than
anticipate all the possible uses for a machine, it's, of course,
generally better to
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
Can you guys please just state upfront what virtualization
issue is made more difficult by features you want to remove?
Sorry, I mentioned virtualization because that's been the
largest majority of the cases being
David Miller wrote:
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
Can you guys please just state upfront what virtualization
issue is made more difficult by features you want to remove?
Sorry, I mentioned virtualization because that's been the
largest
