same addresses on different interfaces

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

Dear colleagues,

is it OK that no warnings are given when one set the very same address on 
different interfaces? Example (tested on stable/7 and stable/8):

Script started on Fri Jun 11 13:44:08 2010

hamster# ifconfig vlan8 create vlan 8 vlandev em0
hamster# ifconfig vlan8 10.5.5.9/30
hamster# netstat -rn | grep '10\.5'
10.5.5.8/30        link#3             U           0        0  vlan8
10.5.5.9           link#3             UHS         0        0    lo0
hamster# ifconfig vlan9 create vlan 9 vlandev em0
hamster# ifconfig vlan9 10.5.5.9/30
hamster# netstat -rn | grep '10\.5'
10.5.5.8/30        link#3             U           0        0  vlan8
10.5.5.9           link#3             UHS         1        0    lo0
hamster# exit

Script done on Fri Jun 11 13:46:24 2010

Thanks.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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