On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:51:12 +0200 "Angelo Dell'Aera" <buffer@antifork.org> wrote: > I agree with you but you should agree with me that removing a > net driver while the NIC is generating traffic should be not > possibile. No, I disagree. Doing this is fine, it means you no longer want the device in the system. The ethernet drivers do the right thing when you ask for this, rmmod ends up downing the interfaces for you and once packet/socket/etc. references flush out the module is unloaded cleanly. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html