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Subject: Re: How to power down/up NIC interfaces ....
From: Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:24 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:

Hi,

> I changed the settings in rc.conf & networks & did an 'infonfig re0 down/up'
> & nothing has changed :-/ ....

I think what you are looking for is:

/etc/rc.d/netif restart # be carefull it will restart all your nics,
loosing your actual connection


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