On Friday 10 October 2008 11:02:49 Kenn Humborg wrote:
> Centos5.2. quagga-0.98.6-5.el5.
>> I have a host with two NICs, one on the Internet
> and one internal. It runs quagga'a ospfd to
> exchange routing info over the internal NIC to
> other internal hosts.
>> I want to add another IP address to the external NIC.
>> If I do
>> ip addr add xx.xx.xx.xx/xx broadcast xx.xx.xx.xx dev eth0
>> all the OSPF routes are removed from
> the routing table for maybe 20 seconds or more,
> seemingly while ospfd re-calculates the routes.
[snip]
As much as I dislike aliases, this is the one situation where "ifconfig eth0:1
w.x.y.z broadcast w'.x'.y'.z' netmask w*.x*.y*.z*" may be better for you.
-- Lance
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