Yes, using the same concept used in Junos would make things much
easier. On top of this, when I change the primary IP, it takes
about 500ms to see the change applied which is critical for real
time applications. Using more than one primary IP would solve
this as well. Also it seems that if I have a primary address and
a secondary one (alias), even though I make the primary address
invalid (trying to force the kernel to use the secondary first),
the kernel still tries the primary first regardless of its
validity (I set the primary IP to 0.0.0.0). Anybody has any
comments about this? Can anyone point out to me where is the
code for primary/secondary IPs in the kernel? Thanks a lot,
Hasso Tepper wrote: Henrik Nordstrom wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004,
Hasso Tepper wrote: And why I can't even choose which address is
primary? It is the first you add in a subnet. Yes, but to change
the primary I have remove old primary (and therefore all
secondaries) and assign new primary to the interface and then
all secondaries etc.