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SubjectRe: Network iface is down but pingable
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pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) writes:

> Deleting the route when an interface is taken down is like deleting a
> symlink when the target file is deleted. It's extremely frustrating if
> you have a non-trivial configuration and all you wanted to do was to
> attempt to reset the ethernet controller with rmmod/insmod.

If you rmmod the ethernet driver module, you lose ethxx device, all
its addresses and routes.
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Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator

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