That isn't exactly true. I suspect the problem only lies with multicast
sockets. TCP most certainly will not have any problems, other than a
small delay while packets are resent if they were rejected during the
short time interval that the interface was down, the same as how it can
recover from a
I can't answer the question about gmond -- but any application that has
a socket open is going to have trouble with your management practice.
Maybe it needs to be smarter and not do the reconfig unless it's needed?
(And if it is needed, it would likely be more appropriate to do a reboot
-- who know
