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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Strange /etc/rc.d/netif behaviour
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Martin Turgeon wrote this message on Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:55 -0500:
> I'm not sure if this is really a bug but it doesn't look all fine to me. 
> When I do a /etc/rc.d/netif restart it does restart the network 
> interfaces but doesn't replace the default route that it just erased 
> even if it is specified in rc.conf correctly. I found that I should also 
> restart routed but it looks strange to me. I know that the /etc/netstart 
> script did it all but it's written in it that it's obsolete so I don't 
> want to use it.
> 
> So, is this normal and if so what is the best way to restart both a the 
> same time.

Why don't you restart /etc/rc.d/routing too?  That will repopulate the
default route(s) for you..

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