[openbeosnetteam] Re: new if_flag IFF_CONNECTED

"Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > But disagreeing with Philippe, ifconfig is about creating/deleting 
> > interfaces as well. At least it should be able to do so, even if 
> > the 
> > net_stack doesn't _need_ it for that. I am often using ifconfig to 
> > do 
> > that :)
> Oh, is it an official feature request? ;-)
> Because, currently, our ifconfig don't offer it.
> 
> Obvioulsy, if we, one day, add creating/deleting interfaces to 
> ifconfig, it make senses.
> But, tooday, it don't.

Oh, I thought it would already do that (since the original ones do this 
as well).
It's also very handy when developing a network driver, since removing 
the interface will unload the driver - and you can do a "ifconfig --del 
/dev/...; rescan ...; ifconfig /dev/..." in the makefile automatically.
So in this case, yes it is a feature request :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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