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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:35:05 -0600
From:      "Daniel M. Kurry" <grasshacker@over-yonder.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        whoever <somebody@kashmir.etowns.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ethernet tunnel device
Message-ID:  <20020211163505.V62432@over-yonder.net>
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
References:  <20020211032336.A2135@kashmir.etowns.net> <20020211121432.A22389@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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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.
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dan


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