On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:56:32 +0100
Jiri Bohac <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:38:17AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Jiri Bohac <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I have the feeling that Eric's patch is the safest solution we
> > > have so far:
> > Eric's patch has other regressions, see the discussion.
> 
> What regression do you mean? I have read the whole discussion
> thoroughly. You only say in one message that deleting ::1 would
> propagate to routing daemons. And Eric correctly stated that
> people couldn't hit this, because  deleting ::1 would break
> things on its own.
> 
> Is there a real problem with Eric's fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

If address is assigned to loopback interface (other than ::1) then
Eric's fix doesn't work.  It is common to use an additional address
on the lo device when doing routing protocols.

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