Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262976AbTFGLHm (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:07:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263062AbTFGLHm (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:07:42 -0400 Received: from ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil ([134.207.10.161]:12689 "EHLO ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262976AbTFGLHl (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:07:41 -0400 Message-Id: <200306071121.h57BL4sG006740@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> To: James Stevenson cc: Werner Almesberger , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] use rtnl_{lock,unlock} during device operations (take 2) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:19:40 BST." X-url: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/chas/index.html X-mailer: nmh 1.0 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:19:15 -0400 From: chas williams X-Spam-Score: (*) hits=1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 15 In message ,James Steven son writes: >Think of a latop with a normall ethernet card in it. >When you unplug the cable it wont disconnect all the tcp >connection on the interface so that you could re route everything though >a wireless card. if i have a single interface and i physically remove it (not just unplug the cable) i would be willing to accept that certain tcp connections are going to die. particularly tcp which might be using keep alives. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/