[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] Initialization Sequence

[John C. Toman]

Hi Leon and Adam,

I very much agree with this. A way to shut down or even remove an 
interface would be very useful. DHCP will be necessary for my 
applications and users as well.

Thanks,

John

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>Hello Adam,
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>in followup to John's question. A function that closes all connections
>and their resources,  might be very handy (hint :), also in the light of
>DHCP support.
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>Suppose all conections have been closed, what's the neatest way of
>ignoring new connection attempts?
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>1) Removing the interfaces.
>2) Zeroing the interfaces IP addresses
>3) ... something completely different?
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>Leon.
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>Hi John!
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>On Wednesday 19 December 2001 23:05, you wrote:
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>>Another unrelated question: Are there ramifications of changing an IP
>>address with the stack running?
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>It will cause problems for connections that are running when the change is
>made. But other than that, it should work.
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>/adam
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