From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 26 14:46:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9F637B402 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd10.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16UbaT-0003RY-04; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:46:17 +0100 Received: from idefix.local (320080844193-0001@[62.225.210.193]) by fmrl10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16UbaQ-1LfGaWC; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:46:14 +0100 Received: (nullmailer pid 353 invoked by uid 1000); Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:46:17 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:46:17 +0100 From: Clemens Hermann To: BSD NET-List Subject: natd restart Message-ID: <20020126234617.C267@idefix.local> Mail-Followup-To: Clemens Hermann , BSD NET-List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.2.5.1i (FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386) X-Sender: 320080844193-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Is there a way to get natd to reload the config-file without terminating? The only way I found is to stop natd and then start it again. As the natd-config changes frequently here (we are changing the used network and we misuse natd to help us) I expect problems when just shuting down natd in a heavily used environment. If I got it right natd does not keep track about state but anyway if I stop and start natd frequently I certainly will lose connections, right? I could not find a way to HUP natd, neither to change its behaviour during runtime. Is there a way to solve the issue or does the problem I see not exist and in reality nobody will notice anything if natd is stopped and restarted? tia /ch -- "Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message