Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:05:47 +0200 From: Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespasac@minibofh.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Change netmask with /etc/rc.d/network restart or reboot the machine? Message-ID: <48CF930B.4020704@minibofh.org>
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Hi all, I've a lot of boxes in production with a lot of associated services (http, ftp, ssh, smtp, mysql...). Because of internal administration reasons I need to ampliate my internal IPs range from /24 to /16; so I need to change my internal NIC settings. The last goal is make the change with _security_. I prefer a reboot with thier 2/4 minutes downtime than a odd miss-function in several production services. I tend to think that the use of ifconfig(8) will be enough; of course, I'll also modify /etc/rc.conf 'ifconfig_<nic_id>' record for posterior reboots. Or maybe I has more sense to modify directly the /etc/rc.conf record and next use the '/etc/rc.d/netif restart'; or maybe make the change in /etc/rc.conf and reboot the machines. ¿What do you tink about? -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent
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