Instead of blindly running the ADSL modem drivers at startup, these files configure usbd to run them whenever the modem is plugged in. It doesn't kill them automatically when the modem is unplugged because it is much safer to manually kill them first. I also include some relevant bits of my ppp configuration which handles bringing NAT and packet forwarding up and down gracefully.
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Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->freebsd-bugs Although this looks like a ports PR, the files refered to are owned by the OS, not the ports systems. I therefor ask somebody with access to src/ to have a look at this PR.
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The usbd(8) was removed in FreeBSD 7.0 (see r153430).