Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:12:11 +0200 From: "Benjamin Sobotta" <mayday@gmx.net> To: Bram Schoenmakers <bramschoenmakers@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network interface restart Message-ID: <20070509121211.78770@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200705091331.56038.bramschoenmakers@xs4all.nl> References: <200705091231.18164.bramschoenmakers@xs4all.nl> <1A58CC26-5CAE-4834-9043-27040767CEF5@brooknet.com.au> <200705091331.56038.bramschoenmakers@xs4all.nl>
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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
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