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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:26:17 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_detach() 
Message-ID:  <1969.813601577@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:30:52 -0400." <199510131630.MAA10070@etinc.com> 

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> >> 
> >> Is there such an animal done or planned?
> >
> >Not that I know of.
> >
> >If we had it, we could use it for pccard too.
> 
> With dynamic interfaces (like SVCs in X.25 and frame relay) it would be nice
> if you could attach/detach when a connection was made and dropped rather
> than have the interfaces just hanging around. I'm pretty sure that system V
> has this for their loadable modules also. 

Sure thing.  Shouldn't be too bad to do, just detach from a bunch of lists 
and other weird structures.

Send the patches to Garrett when you think they are ok :-)

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
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It will be some time yet before progress goes too far... (Poul Henningsen)



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