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Re: modularizing some of the net code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Sat Mar 16 05:07:50 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:36:38 +0100
In linux.dev.net, article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960314095047.14870C-100000@LiO=
Ns.reSEQ.unGOV>,
lilo <lilo@lions.reseq.ungov> writes:
>=20
> Each socket, and each interface, is a demand that the module be kept.=
So
Hmm... a socket usually doesn't refer to a specific interface (from the
user's point of view), it refers to a specific pair of source/destinati=
on
addresses/pports.
If you remove an interface, all the sockets are "removed" from the inte=
rface
as well (they'll have to find a different route next time you send
something on them). This code already is in the kernel and seems to wor=
k;
my ISDN driver (not the one in the current 1.3 kernel... ;-) uses this
feature.
I can't think of a reason to change that behavior.
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