Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:19:39 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Abdul Basit <basit@basit.cc>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, 6bone@mailman.isi.edu Subject: Re: pim6sd crash Message-ID: <y7vadgvzm10.wl@ocean.jinmei.org> In-Reply-To: <20030216145145.A30301@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302141741490.18936@wireless.cs.twsu.edu> <y7vlm0gy9ug.wl@ocean.jinmei.org> <20030216145145.A30301@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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>>>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:51:45 -0800, >>>>> Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> said: >> > on freebsd 5.0-Release, pim6sd crashes if i execute >> > ifconfig gifX destroy if it is running in background, >> > i need to restart it manually. >> >> > pim6sd display 'check_vif_state' Device not configured >> > and exits. any workaround ? >> >> A workaround is not to destroy an interface when pim6sd is running on >> the interface. >> >> Note that this kind of trouble is not specific to pim6sd. Dynamic >> interface creation/deletion is a big architectural change to the >> traditional BSD kernel, and I bet there are many other applications >> affected by such an operation. > The user of the destroy command of ifconfig is expected to be paying > attention. This is the functionaly equivalent of yanking a NIC out > of its slot. It is the case that applications that can't handle this > are broken and need to be fixed becase you shouldn't count on any > interfaces staying around. (Just in case) I didn't intend to say create/destroy is the wrong approach and pim6sd doesn't need a fix. My point is that create/destroy is a big change that can affect many applications (including pim6sd) and that a "workaround" is not to use the operation for now. JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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