Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:29:28 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "David Allen" <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reconfiguring network interfaces Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080706092727.02626760@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <2daa8b4e0807060706s4e5f8aedqe2ce00ca33bd1b46@mail.gmail.co m> References: <2daa8b4e0807060706s4e5f8aedqe2ce00ca33bd1b46@mail.gmail.com>
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At 09:06 AM 7/6/2008, David Allen wrote:
>I need to make several wholesale changes to a few different systems,
>and I'd prefer to do it over SSH without losing connectivity where
>possible. I know I can use ifconfig, or edit /etc/rc.conf directly
>and reboot, but is there a canonical way to make the changes in
>/etc/rc.conf and "reload" those changes to ensure everything is in a
>known state? From what I can determine, running netif stop/start
>would work, but would require I do that locally.
You pretty much need to be on the console rather than ssh'd in to make
those changes interactively. You can do them remotely via a cron job or at
job, but any mistake will require a trip to the console.
-Derek
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