Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 02:11:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: The if_detach problem Message-ID: <199912150211.TAA17174@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199912142145.VAA34161@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> from "Brian Somers" at Dec 14, 99 09:45:36 pm
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> Is there a lot to be gained by removing interfaces ? Yes. You can then unplug the hardware that they represent. > I would think that losing an interface would mean the existence of an > interface number with no interface (this may break code that caches > interface number-to-name information (ppp(8)... I thought about this > when I wrote the code, but I've never tested it)). "Caching considered harmful". 8-). > I would also think that adding another interface would get the > deallocated interface number again.... this'll kill any program that > thinks it can cache this sort of info (ppp(8)). > > I guess ppp could be changed to not cache this sort of stuff.... Yes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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