"A month of sundays ago Kurt Roeckx wrote:"
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:38:38PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > But it really is probable that this is a kernel bug wrt sockets when the
> > address family != AF_INET. The above usually avoids triggering it.
>
> I took a look at the kernel now, and found this in
> net/ipv4/devinet.c:devinet_ioctl():
>
> if (!(ifr.ifr_flags&IFF_UP))
> inet_del_ifa(in_dev, ifap, 1);
> break;
> }
> #endif
> ret = dev_change_flags(dev, ifr.ifr_flags);
> break;
>
>
> If I understand it correctly, this is called for AF_INET only, and will
> call inet_del_ifa() if it's an alias, and not the dev_change_flags().
You are saying that inet_del_ifa(in_dev, ifap, 1) should be called
in all cases when we're on an alias device (as determined by the colon
in the name). I think you're right. Anyone else?
> in_dev probably [points] to the correct alias here.
Peter
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