Re: No cleanup of ppp0 device in 2.2.11

Tim Ricketts (tr@oxlug.org)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:38:22 +0100 (GMT)


On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Thomas Speck wrote:

> I noticed, that after shutting down a ppp-connection ppp0 device is still
> accessible and one can manipulate it.

This has happened to me once (in somewhere around 20 connections on this
kernel). It never happened on the previous kernel (2.2.11+oom patch) or
any other ever AFAIR. ifconfig ppp0 down brought the interface down.

falcon:~$ uname -a
Linux falcon.foo 2.2.12 #1 Sat Aug 28 00:17:30 BST 1999 i586 unknown
falcon:~$ /usr/sbin/pppd --version
pppd version 2.3 patch level 5
falcon:~$

-- 
Tim
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