On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:23:41AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I'm thinking that something should read any packets that end up > getting sent and discard them; this feels cleaner than having them > fill up in a queue and get dropped. Sent by whom? A tap device that is not opened is like an unconnected Ethernet device. The fact that it is bridged to another only means that you have a permanent MAC address, as well as an IP address if you wish, on that bridge. It's really no different to having an additional, unconnected Ethernet device in the system. -- Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost "You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks Owe it to yourself not to fail" Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.
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