Re: [lwip-users] Cable unplug events

[Kieran Mansley]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:31 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Is a cable removal event catastrophic, forcing all open connections to be
> reset and dhcp to restart from scratch, or is it something that should be
> ignored if it is shorter than a specific duration?

Cable events should be entirely ignored by the stack.  The stack has its
own ways to determine if the physical link between it and the other end
is present (using probing) which can take account of all the links on
that path rather than just the local one.

Kieran