Hello Stephen,
It was intentional in 2.6 to allow interfaces to be hot-removed.
Remember with Internet protocols there is no hard binding (normally)
between address and device and connections should not go down if link
fails.
of course. That makes sense. I just wondered when the change in mind
happened. And actually I like this behaviour.
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With that everything works. If somone is interested in my userland
watchdog, just send me an E-Mail.
Hopefully, it won't be necessary for long.
So do I.
Thomas