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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, sam <samflanker@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [trouble] restart network & vlan`s interface
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On Feb 20, 2008 12:08 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0300, sam wrote:
> > Brooks Davis wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:41:22AM +0300, sam wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> please help me for writing  /etc/rc.conf with  vlan`s  interfaces
> >>> (without problem network sub-system restart)
> >>>
>
> /etc/netstart just ignores it's arguments.  It's really intended for
> those times when you want to bring networking up from singleuser
> mode, not what you chance configurations.  We do not currently have a
> one-size-fits-all mechanism for handling network configuration changes.
>
> -- Brooks
>


Which inevitably leads to problems in running systems where the "restart
configuration" does not match the "running configuration" of the network.
It's a non-trivial problem.  non-trivial to solve, non-trivial to be left
unsolved.