Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 14:57:51 -0700 From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: Oliver Peter <lists@peter.de.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CURRENT: "service netif restart" looses default route Message-ID: <786D056E-A8BE-42A7-A609-5152EB1D739F@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d6964d65-5f6f-cfee-2b23-bc3206b6e5f8@nomadlogic.org> References: <20161005184748.01aca03e.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20161006072753.GA11735@mail.opdns.de> <d6964d65-5f6f-cfee-2b23-bc3206b6e5f8@nomadlogic.org>
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> On Oct 6, 2016, at 09:40, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > >> On 10/6/16 12:27 AM, Oliver Peter wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 06:47:48PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >>> >>> Today, I checked on two servers of ours running both a recent CURRENT (i.e. FreeBSD >>> 12.0-CURRENT #43 r306701: Wed Oct 5 06:40:40 CEST 2016) via "service netif restart" the >>> upcoming network and realised that the default route is lost then! >>> >>> I'm able to config the route via "service routing restart" - or manually as I did >>> otherwise. But I recall that I did a simple "service netif restart" in 11-CURRENT >>> recently and that worked. >>> >>> Has there been a change? What is now the official way to restart network? >> >> Since the past couple of years on every new FreeBSD I put this in motd for my >> linux colleagues and coworkers: >> >> Network: >> To apply changes you have made to the network: >> # /etc/rc.d/netif restart && /etc/rc.d/routing restart >> >> Perhaps we could introduce a wrapper to be used with: >> # service network restart > > <snip code - which i think looks good> > > I think this is a great idea - especially as it would make it easier for dev's and other novice admin's to use freebsd as a development platform. Special casing would need to be done with DHCP, btw.. Also, what about IPv6 (rtsol/rtsold, etc)? Thanks! -Ngie
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