In article <199911051924.TAA26678@orchard.arlington.ma.us>,
Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> wrote:
>
>If you disconnect an interface and leave it disconnected permanently,
>the "blackholed" interfaces will hang around forever, but that doesn't
>seem like a particuarly problematic behavior in normal use (where one
>is switching among a small, but limited, set of interfaces -- for
>instance, a modem card, an ethernet card, and a wireless network
>interface).
>

there should be a call though to permanently flush the interface state,
deleting the blackhole...

christos