Re: Correct way to control alias of a NIC interface from application running as non-root

On Jun 11, 6:41 pm, Tim Southerwood <t...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rohit wrote:
On Jun 11, 4:28 pm, Tim Southerwood <t...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rohit wrote:
I am working on some application which requires taking down alias
interface (say eth0:1) on one machine and bring an alias with same IP
on another machine. So far i was running my application as root itself
but now i want to stop that . But the steps remain same.

BTW, please don't multipost, crosspost instead - I just replied to this
in c.o.l.development.system

Cheers

Tim

I do not know why you are advocating this as some people may have
subscibed to only one of them and get to see the Q only once. And the
Question i asked seems to be ok to be asked in either of them. Those
who see it twice can just ignore it when they see it second time.
Still if you think this is not good idea , let me know why ??

-- Rohit

I'm not going to argue or start a flame - it's not a big thing, but I will
explain my argument gladly.

The usual argument in favour of crossposting is less bandwidth and disk
usage on the news-servers and less bandwidth usage to the newreader (some
people still have only dial-up). But there is a further take, which is that
with multiposting:

Someone in group A reponds helpfully, taking 10 minutes to think and type up
a 50 line detailed repsonse.

A while later, person in group B, unaware of person in group A's answer,
spends 10 minutes to come up with an equally helpful and basically similar
answer.

If person in group B had seen the reply in group A via crossposting, they
may have thought "that's a good answer, just what I would have said" and
simply move on with their life.

In other words, it can waste the time of helpful people unnecessarily.

It's not big deal, but I've seen the effect a number of times and it's
easily avoided.

My opinion only, but I think it is rational.

Cheers

Tim

Well then i would change the way i do things here. Here is what i am
going to do. I will post the Q to group A only, wait for sometime (how
much ?? it's relative ).
If i do not get any reply, then only i go to group B (which according
to me is second best candidate for my Q.). I think this addresses
concerns of both of ours.

Anyway thanks for ur reply and suggestions about multiposting. It made
me think more about other view and changed the way i will do things in
future .

Cheers,
-- Rohit

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