Subject: re: inp_ialink, et al, garbage?
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/24/2003 09:57:08
   Speaking of overhead...
   
   After itojun "#if 0"ed the closing of sockets when an address is deleted 
   (whicih I agree with), the machinery to maintain the per-address socket lists 
   seems to be strictly unnecessary.  Nothing is done with this information now.


so, i dunno that i agree with this change.  it ends up leaving stale
entries in my routing table that i end up having to manually remove
before i can use my network again.

eg, i insert a cardbus ethernet, get an IP configured, time passes,
the card is ejected and later i may connect via a wireless and i
can not talk to the wired ethernet subnet anymore because i still
have a network route for it that now points to "lo0".


i find this behavour vastly more annoying than the old "connections
die when interface goes away" behaviuor.  at least it didn't require
any special futzing around by the superuser to fix.
   

.mrg.