Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:19:43 +0100 (BST)

> There's one more thing we really ought to fix, and that is
> telling the application that its socket has died. That
> knowledge is available, there's no need for the time-out
> (which can take a very long time). Both RST-provoking
> and Andi's suggestion fix that.

It hasn't died. Its source interface has become temporarily unavailable.
You may get it back on a redial or on a DHCP retry (in fact in the DHCP
case after a loss of address through something like a network failure
you are almost always going to get the address back)

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