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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing interfaces
In-Reply-To: <200002030534.WAA10257@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Feb 2, 2000 10:34:04 pm"
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:58:00 -0800 (PST)
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Warner Losh writes:
> : With all the PCMCIA card stuff going on, is it now possible to
> : remove a networking interface in FreeBSD (from within the kernel)?
> : 
> : If so could someone show me an example how. I'd like to implement
> : this in the ng_iface(8) netgraph node type.
> 
> if_detach() is supposed to do this, but there are theoretical problems
> with our implementation of it.  Also, there needs to be some way to
> propigate the "gone"ness of the interface generically rather than the
> ad-hoc way we do it now.

Thanks, that works great (so far :-)

-Archie

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