Twice today, my laptop crashed when I removed an 802.11 pcmcia
card.  I had stopped dhclient and ifconfig'ed the interface down before 
removing the card -- I do this all the time, and it never causes any 
problems.  The only difference I can think of is that I had ipv6 in use 
today, and in particular I have ip6mode=autohost.  I use rtsol, rather 
than rtsold; this is on 1.6.2.

Has anyone else seen this?  Is this a known problem?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb