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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BUGS in FreeBSD (Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD)
Date: 21 Jun 1995 11:49:38 +0200
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Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
> When you ifconfig an interface, it natually assumes it is up. I
>don't know where your friend is seeing the behaviour that an interface
>stays up when you "ifconfig <ifname> down" it. I just brought my main
>NIC down and ping/traceroute/NFS-related commands all indicated the
>network was not reachable.
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.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)