From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 09:20:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA04817 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:20:02 -0700 Received: from etinc.com (etinc-gw.new-york.net [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA04800 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:19:55 -0700 Received: from trumpet.etnet.com (trumpet.etnet.com [129.45.17.35]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA10070; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:30:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:30:52 -0400 Message-Id: <199510131630.MAA10070@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Poul-Henning Kamp From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: if_detach() Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >> Is there such an animal done or planned? > >Not that I know of. > >If we had it, we could use it for pccard too. With dynamic interfaces (like SVCs in X.25 and frame relay) it would be nice if you could attach/detach when a connection was made and dropped rather than have the interfaces just hanging around. I'm pretty sure that system V has this for their loadable modules also. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25