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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:9500 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2344 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BUGS in FreeBSD (Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD) Date: 22 Jun 1995 06:50:03 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3sb3qr$1c2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3s5v7u$r8c@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3s8pvi$ma6@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3saulb$j11@Venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sextans.eecs.berkeley.edu In article <3saulb$j11@Venus.mcs.com>, Nesta Stubbs <nesta@MCS.COM> wrote: >>SLIP interface down apparently doesn't do anything. (The bozo who >>does it would deserve a hangup. :-) Anyway, it's a benign bug, if >>somebody wants to take the SLIP connection down he ought to kill the >>slattach process, so certainly nobody cares. > >not to start a useless thread, but I can think of a dozen or so >reasons why I would want to disable the interface without bringing the >line down. I think there is some miscommunication here. Yes, you want to be able to bring down a SLIP connection without hanging up the device. Under the 2.0.5_CURRENT release, it is not possible to do this. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu -- LINUX, the FREE | University of California at | Nick Kralevich Operating System of the | Berkeley. Department of | nickkral@cory.eecs. future available via anon | Electrical Engineering and | berkeley.edu FTP. Ask me about it. | Computer Science. | finger for PGP