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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:9483 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2342 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: nesta@MCS.COM (Nesta Stubbs) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BUGS in FreeBSD (Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD) Date: 22 Jun 1995 00:21:47 -0500 Organization: Angeli Caduti Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3saulb$j11@Venus.mcs.com> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3s4v7u$3ko@agate.berkeley.edu> <3s5v7u$r8c@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3s8pvi$ma6@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com In article <3s8pvi$ma6@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >No Brian, this is really a bug in the SLIP implementation. Taking a >SLIP interface down apparently doesn't do anything. (The bozo who >does it would deserve a hangup. :-) Anyway, it's a benign bug, if >somebody wants to take the SLIP connection down he ought to kill the >slattach process, so certainly nobody cares. not to start a useless thread, but I can think of a dozen or so reasons why I would want to disable the interface without bringing the line down. Well one being that SLIP is not always over phone lines, two being that just because it IS over a phone line doesn't mean it should have a different "config" then the other network interfaces. So now if I want to stop my SLIP connection I can't just bring down the itnerface I have to reach around and undo a serial plug? SLIP is SERIAL LINE ip, SERIAL LINE != phone line. -- To John Dillinger, and hope he is still alive. |Nesta Stubbs|