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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:57:45 +0100
From: Angelo Turetta <aturetta@bestunion.it>
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Cc: Eitan Shefi <eitans@mellanox.co.il>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: VLAN interface management - unloading carrying driver hangs the
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Yony Yossef wrote:
> /sbin/ifconfig vlan3653 create
>
> Problem is when I assign an IP to the vlan interface.
> In that case, unloading the driver results in hanging the host.
>  
> Does it sound familiar to anybody?

Well, surely I'd expect problems by doing so.
The correct way is to

	/sbin/ifconfig vlan3653 destroy

before unloading the driver.

Angelo.