not adding duplicate interface

[Gerald Carter]

Herb Lewis wrote:
> 
> The file lib/interface.c in the function add_interface first does a
> check to see if the interfaces are on the same subnet and if so
> does not add them printing out the above message at debug level 3.
> 
> This prevents you from using "bind interfaces only = yes" to bind to
> multiple interfaces on the same subnet or to ipaliases on the same
> interface while excluding other unwanted IP addresses.
> 
> What was the reasoning behind this test? If it was to truely exclude
> duplicates then the same_net function needs to be changed and not
> mask the ip address with the netmask.

Did you ever get this resolved herb?






Cheers, jerry

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