[LARTC] ip address delete bug?

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

>>> "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?
>
> You are logged into the machine via ssh on eth0. You delete the ip address of 
> eth0. How are you going to add the new address to eth0 now that your 
> connection is gone? Go to the server room and use the console?
>
> Normally, I would add the new IP to eth0, start another ssh to the new IP, 
> log out from the session to the old IP, remove the old IP from eth0 and be 
> done. If I want the server to be reachable under both IPs during a transition 
> period, I can delay deletion of the old IP until later.

Then I guess the question is: does anything in common use depend on the 
old behavior?

 			Alexey