ifdown/ifup under FreeBSD?

[Bas Smeelen]

Sandra Kachelmann wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Sandra Kachelmann wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Igor V. Ruzanov <igorr at canmos.ru> wrote:
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>>>> |Under RedHat Linux I can configure an interface, routes and so on in
>>>> |/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1,
>>>> |/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/routes-eth1 then simply run:
>>>> |
>>>> |$ ifup eth1
>>>> |
>>>> |and it will set all the routes/netconfig/aliases I just configured.
>>>> |
>>>> |Is there something similar in FreeBSD?
>>>> |
>>>> |I tried configuring aliases in /etc/rc.conf and running:
>>>> |
>>>> |$ /etc/rc.d/netif restart
>>>> |
>>>> |but that just ended in errors that the route was already configured
>>>> |and so on. Sure I could do all the work manually with ifconfig and
>>>> |route but that's not my question.
>>>> |
>>>> Under FreeBSD (as well as under Linux) you could use Zebra (Zebra/Quagga
>>>> projects) to configure any interfaces/routing specific things.
>>>>         
>>> I try to avoid doing complex routing things on my servers. I leave
>>> that up to the NOC guys. They can do that on their fancy cisco
>>> switches. I want just one route per interface :-)
>>>
>>> I just wanted to add a seperate route/ip for the second interface,
>>> make it permanent by adding it to /etc/rc.conf and tell my FreeBSD to
>>> pretend it's booting up by running /etc/rc.d/netif restart. As others
>>> pointed out I forgot /etc/rc.d/route.
>>>
>>> Sandra
>>>       
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I use "/etc/netstart", since it includes all of the commands listed
>> previously, as well as others that start the DHCP client, firewall, etc.
>>     
>
> That's what i was looking for. How do you use it correctly? Just "sh
> /etc/netstart"?
>   
That should work.
But read the contents of the file.
It does not restart anything, just start

Quote:
# This file is NOT called by any of the other scripts - it has been
# obsoleted by /etc/rc.d/* and is provided here only for user
# convenience (if you're sitting in single user mode and wish to start
# the network by hand, this script will do it for you).

It seems like I loose my remote connection when doing it this way due to
ipfw which I normally restart with #sh /etc/ipfw.rules & so I don't lose
my connection
#sh /etc/netstart &
or
#sh /etc/netstart
both connection lost

So after a config change of ip and gateway I prefer the netif and
routing option




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