Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:27:01 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <gelderen@mediaport.org> Cc: "Sheldon Hearn" <axl@iafrica.com>, "Dmitry Valdov" <dv@dv.ru>, "Kris Kennaway" <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, "Brian Somers" <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c Message-ID: <199811102127.VAA16076@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:47:14 %2B0100." <008d01be0c8f$188b6dc0$1400000a@deskfix.local>
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> From: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
> >Even if ppp does the route cleanup for you, a signal 9 (KILL) doesn't
> >allow it to attempt graceful exit. This means that building cleanup code
> >into ppp would not "fix it in ppp", since the code would never be
> >reached once a SIGKILL is received.
>
> Just a humble thought: route removal can be seen as cleanup, but it can also
> be seen as preparation. Maybe you can do it at ppp startup. Or -if that's
> not possible- you may be able to detect the condition as handle it
> gracefully...
It cleans the interface it wants to use. This should be enough.
It's always possible to put a ``delete! default'' in ppp.conf just in
case that's been left around.
> Cheers,
> Jeroen
> (who does not run ppp)
--
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