Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:27:54 +0100 From: umage <theultramage@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage Message-ID: <4AF7620A.9010709@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF5BB31.5090304@gmail.com> References: <4AF57EB4.3070104@gmail.com> <20091107180710.GA1056@jason-helfmans-macbook-pro.local> <4AF5BB31.5090304@gmail.com>
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> When the connection goes down and comes back up it will take 5 minutes > before my FreeBSD gateway box checks the lease and decides if a renewal is > in order. This is automatic. If I am sitting in front of my computer and I > want to speed this up I issue /etc/rc.d/netif restart on the gateway and it > will come up and be happy in about 10 seconds, rather than waiting out the 5 > minute time out. In my case the router does get the renewed ip, as I described earlier. However, even after waiting 8+ hours, the system will not recover from the outage properly (reason unknown). That's what this thread is all about.
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