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Removing one interface no longer takes the machine's default gateway with it. DHCP installs the gateway at bind, so the last interface to come up owns it machine-wide -- and detaching that one cleared it, leaving the survivor able to reach its own subnet and nothing else. Every off-link connection and every name lookup that had to leave the subnet failed, on an interface that was up, had an address and answered an on-link ping. A gateway is now reinstated from a surviving interface after a detach, taking the survivors' next hops in slot order and letting the stack pick one on a live subnet.
Removing one interface no longer takes its sibling off the wire.S2_ONLINE/S2_OFFLINE are unit commands and every interface on one unit shares one wire, so on a card with two interfaces on UNIT=0 the first one removed sent the whole unit offline underneath the other. The openers of a unit are counted now, keyed on device, unit and board, and the offline command is issued only by the last interface to leave.
A 3c589 is no longer declared dead on a fast machine. Three waits in anxnet.device -- the command-register wait, the EEPROM read and the coax converter's start-up -- polled a hardware bit a fixed number of register reads rather than for a length of time, so the faster the processor the sooner each expired. All three are clocked against the raster beam now, with the old count kept as an unconditional floor.
An empty expansion slot is no longer reported as a card. Gayle's bus keeps the last byte driven on it, so a probe that writes a register and reads the same address back is reading its own write. CheckNetDevice and the ISA-PnP probe now drive a different byte at a second register between the write and the read, so a floating bus cannot answer correctly.
IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration forms an address per interface. Two interfaces sharing a prefix previously did not each get one.