VLAN interface management - unloading carrying driver hangs the
machine
Sam Leffler
sam at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 7 09:54:44 PST 2009
Yony Yossef wrote:
>> Yony Yossef wrote:
>>
>>> /sbin/ifconfig vlan3653 create
>>>
>>> Problem is when I assign an IP to the vlan interface.
>>> In that case, unloading the driver results in hanging the host.
>>>
>>> Does it sound familiar to anybody?
>>>
>> Well, surely I'd expect problems by doing so.
>> The correct way is to
>>
>> /sbin/ifconfig vlan3653 destroy
>>
>> before unloading the driver.
>>
>> Angelo.
>>
>
> Thanks, I didn't know freebsd does not allow it.
>
>
This seems wrong. Someone should disallow the driver detach/unload.
Please file a PR about this so the issue is not lost.
Sam
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