On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:26:06PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> >  | You pop the wireless
> >  | card from your laptop and wait 3 or 4 days until you re-insert the card.
> >  | Would you expect the connection to stay if not only the IP address is
> >  | gone but even the interface itself ?
> 
> >Yes.  Definitely.   [As Manuel says in a slightly later message than yours,
> >NetBSD seems to have some "issues" with some of this at the minute, but
> >eventually someone will get annoyed enough, and fix those.]
> 
> Well, I wouldn't. Instead I would expect to be told that the network
> connection is no longer usable.

And then you would do the same if the UTP link dissapears (most ethernet
drivers can report this too). 
Would you expect to see your ssh connections be killed just because the
switch you're connected to is being reloaded ?

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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