From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 11 3:53:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92EE37B960 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA57977; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:23:05 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: (from darius@localhost) by guppy.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02988; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:23:03 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3993D4BF.F8648EB7@UDcast.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:23:02 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Emmanuel Duros Subject: RE: module if_disc.ko - network module Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Aug-00 Emmanuel Duros wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 3.4R. Ahh well.. > I am currently investigating on how easy it is to transform a kernel network > device driver into a dynamically loadable module. Upgrade, and ye shall see.. At least it's in -current, and I'm fairly sure it's in 4.0 too. Last I checked though, unloading the network interface tended to be a risky prospect so maybe it hasn't been MFC'd yet.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message