On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote: > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > ~ > It's not that easy. This has nothing to do with the interface, but is a > | restriction from the routing stack. Once that restriction goes away, > | there's no reason why aliases wouldn't allow it too. > > That's true, this point isn't exactly an ifconfig issue. However, is > there any objection against changing the behaviour of the routing stack > to what NetBSD does in this specific case?
What does NetBSD do in such a situation? > > |>I second your thoughts about "delete". You don't delete it, you remove > it. > | You delete the route. > > Not if you remove an alias for a subnet already assigned to that > interface, then you just remove the alias address, but the route stays > (you still have an IP in that subnet assigned to that interface etc). You still delete a route, the interface route for the alias address. Joerg
