On Nov 6,  8:47am, sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: An approach for detachable interfaces.

| > there should be a call though to permanently flush the interface state,
| > deleting the blackhole...
| 
| My original goal was to evolve towards a state where this could go
| away when userland deleted all the routes to the interfaces and
| addresses on the interface and brought the interface down.
| 
| i think that having the kernel delete all this state automatically
| when the device goes away feels like the "wrong answer".

I did not say that. I said that there should be a way to force the
system to automatically delete all the state if one wanted to.

christos