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> Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > Could someone please point out where I made the mistake?
> >
> > When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your
> > shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it
> > could finish doing what it was supposed to.  Possibly you need to use
> > something like "nohup" or "screen" (from ports), or have some other
> > form of terminal available.
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> But as I said, I ran the script from a screen session, so that makes me
> wonder 
> why the execution was aborted.
> 
> But is running '/etc/rc.d/netif restart'' known to cause problems? I think
> I 
> shouldn't have to use scripts like these just to change a setting on the 
> network interface.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> -- 
> Bram Schoenmakers
> 

Hi Bram

You're exactly right. You don't need to run scripts like this. "ifconfig" will do what you want. As far as I can see,

"ifconfig bge0 mtu 1472"

should suffice.

Cheers,

Benjamin