Subject: Re: Fw: Re: tcp connections lost on interface down
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/17/2003 16:11:06
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:18:42PM +0700, Robert Elz 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.]

I just tested, unpluging/pluging the same interface (and getting the same
IP from dhcp) works. I don't have another pcmcia adapter to test swapping
interfaces, though.

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