Re: setting ip address removes / replaces first of aliases

Reply: Zhenlei Huang : "Re: setting ip address removes / replaces first of aliases"
In reply to: Andriy Gapon : "setting ip address removes / replaces first of aliases"
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From: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie_at_catflap.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:02:15 UTC

Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> But in a sense this is curious because the behavior breaks imaginary distinction 
> between the main address and the aliases.  One might have expected that removing 
> and then setting again the main address would not affect the aliases.

And to muddy the waters even further, the adding/removing of Ipv6 addresses doesn't
behave the same way!

Jamie