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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:53:28 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I ... 
Message-ID:  <199812290553.NAA70876@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:40:34 MST." <199812290140.SAA17444@harmony.village.org> 

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> ... write a kld that I can unload when I'm doing a network interface?
> Or at the very lead the ability to reload the driver...

The catch is that the driver in question has to support unloading.  All the
existing network interfaces are pseudo-modules and only have a load
routine.  Obviously this requires a fair amount of work to detach a network
interface from the stack (including cleaning up routing tables, pcbs,
queued data, etc) - nobody has done this yet as far as I'm aware.  I
suspect there is a fair amount of infrastructure required to implement
this.

Cheers,
-Peter




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