Hello Stephen, > It was intentional in 2.6 to allow interfaces to be hot-removed. > Remember with Internet protocols there is no hard binding (normally) > between address and device and connections should not go down if link > fails.
of course. That makes sense. I just wondered when the change in mind happened. And actually I like this behaviour. > > With that everything works. If somone is interested in my userland > > watchdog, just send me an E-Mail. > Hopefully, it won't be necessary for long. So do I. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html