cvs commit: src/sys/net if_tap.c

[Roman Kurakin]

John Polstra wrote:

>On 13-Aug-2004 Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>John Polstra wrote:
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>>>That's pretty much correct.  IFF_UP is an administrative control
>>>that expresses the desired state of the interface.  The driver never
>>>changes IFF_UP.  IFF_RUNNING is the driver's idea of the _actual_
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>>PPP state machine can remove IFF_UP. For example if connection is not 
>>persistent and link
>>was broken for any reason.
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>I call that a bug.
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This is not a bug, this is feature of protocol. Some times link should 
go down (or other
state from which it could go up only by administrator (or program) 
intervention).

Probably IFF_UP in PPP violation could be concerned like some protocols 
stacks
relative OSI.

rik

>John
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