In message <199912280552.AAA10025@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Ken Hornstein writes:
: So, I take it from what you've been saying, FreeBSD really does get
: rid of the device completely upon eject now (that has changed since
: I last looked at the code).

Yes.  This is new in the last few months.

: Hmmm, so I take it nothing is really done about the interface pointers
: left over in received mbufs in the FreeBSD code?  Nothing really jumps
: out at me that this is dealt with.

Not directly.  It just goes through the normal shutdown of the device
which seems to get rid of the dangling pointers, but I only have
negative evidence for that (eg the machine doesn't crash).  I've not
had time to do a code review/grep to see if there are problems lurking
under the hood.

I'll be the first to admit that what I committed to FreeBSD was a hack
to get things stable.  I had planned on defining a "this interface
went away" pr_ctlinput message so that the right stuff could happen
generically w/o the gross kludges in FreeBSD's if_detach currently.
This would most likely be the right way to deal with the mbuf problem.

Warner