From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 22 11:54:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52F414F8B for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991122145303.63255@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:53:03 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: David Schwartz , jack , Chris Piazza Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT reliability (was: Microsoft service packs... (was many otherthreads...)) Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <002601bf3311$ead8a370$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <002601bf3311$ead8a370$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from David Schwartz on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 08:44:23PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 20:44:23 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: >> Today Chris Piazza wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 01:57:47PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> >>>> It doesn't seem to be possible to stop and start interfaces on NT; >>>> instead, you reboot. Not what I would expect of any good OS, let >>> >>> FWIW, Windows 2000 can do this fine. It only took a few years ;-). >> >> Can it add and remove alias IPs on interfaces without the reboot >> that NT needs? > > I don't know if it's a new service pack thing or what, but I've noticed > that more and more of my NT servers _don't_ need reboots for that. They do > drop all current TCP connections, That's broken. TCP has nothing to do with interfaces. > but then they're back up just fine. It's a pain to disconnect > everyone who happened to be doing anything, but it's less painful > than a reboot. So they still haven't got it right. > It scares me though, because I have no idea why sometimes it > works now (like the last 4 times I did it) when it never used to. I would have thought that you were used to it by now. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message