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Re: Questions about networking



On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:59:40PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
[...]
> > Arguably, the interface should be
> > removed from the bridge at down time.
> 
> It'll be removed anyway as it will be destroyed shortly after being put down.
> Unless there's a bug in bridge(4) this shouldn't be needed.

Oh, I'm not worried about that.  I did quite a lot of nasty tests for
tap(4) while it was hooked to a bridge(4) and never went into trouble.
Well, never because of bridge(4) ;-)

It just seems cleaner.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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