Re: Network iface is down but pingable

Peter Benie (pjb1008@cam.ac.uk)
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 14:30:35 +0100

Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
Next message: Andrea Arcangeli: "Re: [2.2.{12,13p15}] PPP uploads fizzle out and die (tcpdump info"
Previous message: Stephen Frost: "RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)"

Krzysztof Halasa writes ("Re: Network iface is down but pingable"):
> pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) writes:
>
> > Deleting the route when an interface is taken down is like deleting a
> > symlink when the target file is deleted. It's extremely frustrating if
> > you have a non-trivial configuration and all you wanted to do was to
> > attempt to reset the ethernet controller with rmmod/insmod.
>
> If you rmmod the ethernet driver module, you lose ethxx device, all
> its addresses and routes.

Then that's anther bug :-(.

Peter

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Andrea Arcangeli: "Re: [2.2.{12,13p15}] PPP uploads fizzle out and die (tcpdump info"
Previous message: Stephen Frost: "RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)"