CURRENT: "service netif restart" looses default route

Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org
Thu Oct 6 16:40:30 UTC 2016



On 10/6/16 12:27 AM, Oliver Peter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 06:47:48PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>
>> Today, I checked on two servers of ours running both a recent CURRENT (i.e. FreeBSD
>> 12.0-CURRENT #43 r306701: Wed Oct  5 06:40:40 CEST 2016) via "service netif restart" the
>> upcoming network and realised that the default route is lost then!
>>
>> I'm able to config the route via "service routing restart" - or manually as I did
>> otherwise. But I recall that I did a simple "service netif restart" in 11-CURRENT
>> recently and that worked.
>>
>> Has there been a change? What is now the official way to restart network?
>
> Since the past couple of years on every new FreeBSD I put this in motd for my
> linux colleagues and coworkers:
>
> 	Network:
> 	        To apply changes you have made to the network:
> 	        # /etc/rc.d/netif restart && /etc/rc.d/routing restart
>
> Perhaps we could introduce a wrapper to be used with:
> 	# service network restart

<snip code - which i think looks good>

I think this is a great idea - especially as it would make it easier for 
dev's and other novice admin's to use freebsd as a development platform.

cheers,
-pete


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Pete Wright
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