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document promote_secondaries
authorAndreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:17:02 +0000 (17:17 +0100)
committerStephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:56:05 +0000 (10:56 -0700)
commit3a9e4821b6f1c3bb87c52fe4ef11707e5dc0b75a
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parent83ad2dd781b85a5ea357df4e8cd667410de0bebe
document promote_secondaries

Write something about the tweak to enable promoting secondary addresses
instead of deleting them together with the primary address as discussed
in this thread on the netdev mailing list:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg52294.html

The claim that this is supported since 2.6.15 is based on looking at
changes to net/ipv4/devinet.c in the linux-2.6 git tree:

Commit to add support:
2005-05-30      Harald Welte
8f937c6099858eee15fae14009dcbd05177fa91d

Commit to fix bug:
2005-11-22      Jamal Hadi Salim
0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa

Version 2.6.15 was released 2006-01-03 and seems to include the code from
both the above commits.
doc/ip-cref.tex