Re: Do I need to run netif stop/start if IP is changed?
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 08:20:07 Peter Steele wrote: The user later runs a tool and specifies the IP address to use for a given system. This tool modifies ifconfig and default router lines, e.g. ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport nfe0 laggport nfe1 192.168.17.49 netmask 255.255.240.0 defaultrouter=192.168.16.1 and also executes explicit ifconfig and route add commands that match the entries in rc.conf. The question is, should we also execute a netif stop/start sequence when this IP/router information is assigned? Are there other services that should also be stopped/restarted when the IP is set? Ideally, we want to avoid having to reboot the box to set the IP as we are doing. The question is, should the tool execute the ifconfig and route commands or should the tool simply call netif stop/start so that the tool does not have to be maintained for those command sequences and dependencies of netif get processed (i.e.: /etc/rc.d/pf resync). -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Do I need to run netif stop/start if IP is changed?
We have systems that upon initial configuration have no IP addresses assigned. Their rc.conf entries look like this: ifconfig_nfe0=UP ifconfig_nfe1=UP cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport nfe0 laggport nfe1 defaultrouter=0.0.0.0 The user later runs a tool and specifies the IP address to use for a given system. This tool modifies ifconfig and default router lines, e.g. ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport nfe0 laggport nfe1 192.168.17.49 netmask 255.255.240.0 defaultrouter=192.168.16.1 and also executes explicit ifconfig and route add commands that match the entries in rc.conf. The question is, should we also execute a netif stop/start sequence when this IP/router information is assigned? Are there other services that should also be stopped/restarted when the IP is set? Ideally, we want to avoid having to reboot the box to set the IP as we are doing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Do I need to run netif stop/start if IP is changed?
Peter Steele wrote: We have systems that upon initial configuration have no IP addresses assigned. Their rc.conf entries look like this: snip and also executes explicit ifconfig and route add commands that match the entries in rc.conf. The question is, should we also execute a netif stop/start sequence when this IP/router information is assigned? Are there other services that should also be stopped/restarted when the IP is set? Ideally, we want to avoid having to reboot the box to set the IP as we are doing. As far as I know you do not have to, changing interface settings with ifconfig should be enough. I used to have a script to switch between LAN and WLAN on my laptop which used only ifconfig ip, route flush and route add default routerip. Only thing that comes to mind that could go wrong if daemons are configured to listen on a specifc ip instead of (default) configs with :port. Regards, -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
