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Subject: Re: gateway_enable="YES" without a restart
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:20:22 -0000
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Well thankyou all for your replies, that one line did the trick, and now I
know where to look in future for rc.conf settings.

Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Brampton" <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:06 PM
Subject: gateway_enable="YES" without a restart


> Hi,
> I'm new to FreeBSD, I've had my box running for about 3-4 weeks now.
Anyway
> I've decided to enable it as a gateway by editing the /etc/rc.conf file. I
> previously had it running as a gateway but I commented the
> gateway_enable="YES" line. Now I want to uncomment this line so it routes
my
> traffic, but I don't want to actually restart my box because its got a 17
> day uptime, and I want to see how high I can get it, and the past 17 days
> would of been wasted if I reboot :)
>
> Sorry if this sounds a bit lame, but I'm trying to beat my 21day uptime on
> Windows 2k. So what command could I type, or which process could I
> kill/restart so that my box will function as a gateway?
>
> I had a quick scan through the man page on rc.conf, but didn't find
anything
> of relevance, but I did find many other useful lines I might add to my
> rc.conf file later (just to play around with)..
>
> Anyway I'll be very gratefull if someone could tell me how to keep this
> uptime :)
> thanks
> Andrew
>
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