From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 14:35:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB5637B416 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id A0701FC4; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:35:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:35:05 -0600 From: "Daniel M. Kurry" To: Brooks Davis Cc: whoever , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet tunnel device Message-ID: <20020211163505.V62432@over-yonder.net> References: <20020211032336.A2135@kashmir.etowns.net> <20020211121432.A22389@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-fullermd.1i In-Reply-To: <20020211121432.A22389@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:14:32PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:14:32PM -0800, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:23:36AM -0800, whoever wrote: [...] > > trying to destroy the device using ifconfig gives an error > > too which (i believe) it should because destroy is not > > for ethernet tunnel device if I am not wrong. > > > > but there are no options to destroy the ethernet tunnel > > device in ifconfig .... Should there be????? > > Yes, I think we should add support for network device cloning and > consider removing support for devfs cloning since it doesn't behave very > logicaly. It's not there now, though it wouldn't be very hard to add. > > > I cant think anymore ... would appreciate input from you > > guys . Any input. Please dont shy about telling me that > > I am going the wrong ally > > It sounds like there's some sort of a bug in the close code. You are > sure the previous instance is really gone, right? If it is, that's > another issue. I have seen this same behavior, and the previous instance is, indeed, quite gone. > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message