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I just investigated a long outstanding issue regarding primary and secondary interfaces, where taking down the primary interface will also bring down all the secondaries (which might have bitten one or the other here ...) and recent kernels (means 2.6.14 and later) support an actual workaround for this 'feature', which can be easily activated via sysctl sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries=1 this will activate the so called secondary promotion which means that the kernel will 'elect' a secondary to become the new primary if the old one is taken down ... I would suggest to activate this in linux-vserver setups and maybe userspace tools could pick that up in a slightly more advanced way (i.e. per actual interface and only if required or so) best, Herbert _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
