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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:52:55 +0000
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: Restaarting PF and its effects on jails and vms
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:20:05 +0000
Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:

> Don't restart pf, reload it. "service pf reload" goes to great lengths
> not to interfere with existing connections whereas "service pf restart"
> blows away everything before restarting.

	Thank you very much for mentioning that, I could wish I'd known it
a couple of weeks ago :)

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>