From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 11:42: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF57337B6E7 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e57IfxB09291; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:41:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Brech, Cary" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" , "'mblott@lucent.com'" , "Savio, Florie N" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs Message-ID: <20000607114158.C17973@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <2B493F87657DD211817300A0C99DD08405967B9C@camb-exch1.kenan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <2B493F87657DD211817300A0C99DD08405967B9C@camb-exch1.kenan.com>; from CBrech@kenan.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:27:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brech, Cary [000607 10:33] wrote: > > Lucent recently introduced a product that uses FreeBSD as its OS. We are > currently contemplating adding the ability to "Hot Swap" the custom network > interface cards we are developing for the next release. The question we > have is does FreeBSD support the ability to hot swap network interface > cards? > > Thanks in advance for your assistance! We can do pcmcia hot swap, but it gets hairy if the interface is in use, the interface should be 'downed' before removing afaik. Of course we'd appreciate any enhancements you guys can port over to FreeBSD and would most likely include them in the next release. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message