[c-nsp] shutdown process on interfaces in cisco routers

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> problem is, "shutdown" is the "kill -9" of interfaces - it drops carrier 
> abruptly and leaves everything else sort itself out.  If you want a 
> graceful shutdown then you need a separate command with hooks to all of 
> the protocols running on the interface - and there are usually a lot of 
> those. I suspect this would would be troublesome to implement.

I have no problem if they called it "shutdown gracefully" or something 
else, I just want the functionality so I don't have to go into each and 
every routing protocol and deconfigure the interface in question, and then 
restore it at a later date when I want to go back to normalcy.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se