Re: Do I need to run netif stop/start if IP is changed?

2009-01-22 Thread Mel
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

Do I need to run netif stop/start if IP is changed?

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Steele
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

Re: Do I need to run netif stop/start if IP is changed?

2009-01-21 Thread Frank Staals
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