Re: tap(4) interface management

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:21:47PM +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2009, David Young wrote:
> > if_up() and if_down() call rt_ifmsg(), too, so that if IFF_UP changes,
> > you will get two routing messages instead of one.
> 
> It never has in practice (that I've noticed) but I guess it could depend
> on the interface? Any IFF_UP change has already happened at this stage, so
> unless some other ~CANTCHANGE flags were modified by the up/down code it
> won't be triggered.

You are right, of course.  I had misinterpreted the code.

Dave

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