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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: gated & pccard don't get along Date: 12 Jun 1996 20:24:33 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4pn921$jii@helena.MT.net> References: <nq8W1m3@quack.kfu.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net [ Emailed to posted as well ] In article <nq8W1m3@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: >Perhaps it is too much to expect gated to deal with an interface >suddenly appearing where it previously didn't exist. But if I >boot my laptop without the Ethernet card in and then insert it, >gated dumps core. Is there a fix for this? It's one of only two >tiny problems left keeping this implementation from being perfect >(the other being mss0's tendency to squeal when used). > You could *hack* around the problem by making sure the card is always attached at boot-time even if it's not found, so gatewd wouldn't hae a new interface to deal with. Or, you could work-qaround the problem and only startup gated when you insert the pc-card. To be honest, I'm planning on doing more work on getting better hooks setup for running/stopping things when the ethernet cards are inserted/removed (setting up default routers, IPFW stuff, etc..). Finally, you coulf figure out why gated is dying and *fix* the problem and send the patch to the FreeBSD folks so you wouldn't have to mess with this ever again. :) (I don't know anything about the MSS0 stuff, but my laptop has one and I use it with the SB driver with no problems.) Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth