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Subject: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19
To: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com (Christopher Friesen)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:34:18 +0100 (BST)
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> > the mask for the requested address. This doesn't matter as long as
> > eth0:0-style aliases are configured with ifconfig, but it does matter as
> > soon as ip comes into play and both addresses are assigned to eth0
> > rather than eth0 and eth0:0.
> 
> I think the silence you are hearing from the lkml is a bunch of people thinking
> "Oh, crap!".

Actually its probably a bunch of people thinking "I wonder if someone else
forwarded this to netdev@oss.sgi.com"