Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:18:05 -0600 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networkdevice configuration: reboot necessary? Message-ID: <200612101718.06068.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <457C92B7.5040502@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200612102300.39424.news@budostore.de> <457C92B7.5040502@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sunday 10 December 2006 17:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Karl Sinn wrote: > > I went on with the configuration of my first FreeBSD computer. And I > > found something amazing: > > > > After the configuration of the network device with sysinstall the network > > did not work immediately. > > In the handbook it is written to reboot after configuration. > > Hmmm... sysinstall will usually prompt you to bring up a network interface > after you've filled out the appropriate menu stuff. > > What sysinstall is doing behind the scenes is rewriting the settings in > /etc/rc.conf. As you've discovered, that only has any effect when running > the scripts in /etc/rc.d (or /usr/local/etc/rc.d) -- ie. generally when > rebooting. In fact, what sysinstall does is append new settings to the > end of rc.conf, confusingly leaving the old ones still at the top of the > file. You would be well advised (for the sake of your own sanity, if > nothing else) to learn how to edit rc.conf directly to make such > configuration changes, plus keep the file trimmed of old entries and > extraneous fluff. > > > Is this really necessary? > > Is there no other way to change the configuration without turning of the > > computer? > > Of course there is. You just run ifconfig from the command line, > like you would with any other unix system. Of course, that pre-supposes > you know what to put onto the ifconfig command line: the ifconfig(8) > manual page is a good place to start. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Maybe /etc/rc.d/netif restart is a quick way to apply the configuration changes in /etc/rc.conf. Of course nothing is as good as knowing ifconfig(8) ... and one day I will scratch that off my "to do" list :) lane
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