Re: [PATCH][ATM] use rtnl_{lock,unlock} during device operations

[James Stevenson]

> In message <[e-mail]>,James Steven
> son writes:
> >Think of a latop with a normall ethernet card in it.
> >When you unplug the cable it wont disconnect all the tcp
> >connection on the interface so that you could re route everything though
> >a wireless card.
> 
> if i have a single interface and i physically remove it (not just unplug
> the cable)  i would be willing to accept that certain tcp connections are
> going to die.  particularly tcp which might be using keep alives.

until they try to send data. As soon as they try to send
data on a down interface as in they dont have a route any more
an icmp packet of host / network unreachable should be generated
then the connection can be killed.

	James