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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: 22 Jun 1995 19:43:24 +0200
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Nesta Stubbs <nesta@MCS.COM> wrote:
>... 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.
The bug has been fixed < 24 hours after Nick's complaint appeared
in freebsd-hackers.
>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.
This has always been possible by killing the slattach process (which
is what you certainly want to do anyways).
The bug has really been just a cosmetic one.
--
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. ;-)