Re: Network iface is down but pingable

Drizzt (terron@arrakis.es)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 23:19:02 +0200


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Dec=EDa Jochen Topf:
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> After I "ifconfig down" or "ip link set iface down" a network interface, =
the
> ip number of that interface is still pingable. If first encountered this =
with
> an ethernet interface but can reproduce it now only with a ISDN PPP inter=
face.
Well, I also can create an address with ip address add ( and without alias
support in kernel), could ping the address. Is it a correct behaviur ?. I h=
ave
a device ( I look it with ifconfig -a ) , but the address isn't there.

Saludos
Drizzt
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