Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:36:39 +0100 (BST) | From | James Stevenson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][ATM] use rtnl_{lock,unlock} during device operations (take 2) |
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> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306071214110.19033-100000@god.stev.org>,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.
From how is understand it the tcp connections should be alive 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
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