[LARTC] ip address delete bug?

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> OK, I found out that this is documented behaviour, although the hint is not 
> in the man page.

If it's not in the man page, then where is the below quote from?

> "secondary --- this address is not used when selecting the default source 
> address for outgoing packets. An IP address becomes secondary if another 
> address within the same prefix (network) already exists. The first address 
> within the prefix is primary and is the tag address for the group of all the 
> secondary addresses. When the primary address is deleted all of the 
> secondaries are purged too."
>
> That means there is no way to change the IP of an interface if the prefix and 
> network size stay the same. Are there any plans to fix that?

What's wrong with delete followed by add?

This thread started on netdev, so I'm cc-ing that, in case someone doesn't 
read both lists.

 			Alexey