Updating system's natd config from natd.conf

[Charles Swiger]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Darek M wrote:
> What is the procedure to make active changes made to /etc/natd.conf?
>
> Sometimes, restarting the natd process with an HUP drops my  
> connection.  Other times the restart didn't seem to make any  
> difference.  The only way I've ever updated natd rules was to  
> restart the server and never was able to find anything relating to  
> this topic online.

Basicly, you need to kill and restart natd right now, and doing so  
will lose track of any active state for currently-open connections.   
Natd dies when it gets a SIGHUP, but I've always wanted to extend its  
signal handler to trap SIGHUP and re-read the config file.

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-Chuck