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Date:      Sat, 09 Sep 2000 00:50:42 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, current@FreeBSD.org, net@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: the ifp to a removed pcmcia ethernet card is left in struct ip_moptions and struct ifmultiaddr 
Message-ID:  <200009082350.e88Nogn57839@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>  of "Tue, 05 Sep 2000 00:13:50 MDT." <39B48F1E.4C193F79@softweyr.com> 

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> Seigo Tanimura wrote:
> > 
> > I have been suffering from this problem for almost 2 months. When I
> > remove a pcmcia ethernet card from my laptop PC, routed(8) announces
> > updated routing information by multicast, leading to a kernel
> > panic.
> 
> Ejecting an interface configured up will do that.  ifconfig the interface
> `down' and then `delete' before ejecting it.

Interfaces in promiscuous mode will always result in a reboot.  I 
*usually* get away with ejecting an active card if it's not in 
promiscuous mode.

> -- 
>             "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> 
> Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
> wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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