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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_tap.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20040813101044.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <411CF2CC.4000809@cronyx.ru>

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On 13-Aug-2004 Roman Kurakin wrote:
> John Polstra wrote:
>>That's pretty much correct.  IFF_UP is an administrative control
>>that expresses the desired state of the interface.  The driver never
>>changes IFF_UP.  IFF_RUNNING is the driver's idea of the _actual_
>>  
>>
> PPP state machine can remove IFF_UP. For example if connection is not 
> persistent and link
> was broken for any reason.

I call that a bug.

John



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