Using "/etc/rc.d/netif start"
Nerius Landys
nlandys at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 17:40:21 UTC 2011
First off, I'm on 9.0-CURRENT-i386, but I don't think that will make a
difference for purposes of my question. I think the freebsd-current
folks are expecting questions that are much harder than this one.
I'm trying to use /etc/rc.d/netif to bring down and bring back up all
network interfaces, because I'm trying to get the correct entries in
/etc/rc.conf for testing some extra network cards.
So right now, my /etc/rc.conf looks like this:
defaultrouter="192.168.0.254"
hostname="elmer.i"
ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.0.6 netmask 255.255.255.0"
/etc/resolv.conf looks like this:
domain i
nameserver 192.168.0.254
I'm basically in a LAN. When I boot up this "elmer.i" machine,
everything works well.
Then, I do the following two commands:
/etc/rc.d/netif stop
/etc/rc.d/netif start
After these, I'm still able to ping a raw IP LAN address such as
192.168.0.254. However, two problems start occurring:
1. I cannot ping an IP address that is outside of my LAN, e.g.
> ping 64.156.192.169
PING 64.156.192.169 (64.156.192.169): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
2. DNS (via 192.168.0.254 nameserver) won't work at first, but starts
to magically work when I for example enable sshd and log in to elmer
from another host on the LAN
So the nut of my question is, I think "/etc/rc.d/netif stop" stops
some additional things such as packet routing that the corresponding
"/etc/rc.d/netif start" command won't start back up. So what is the
best way to bring down the network and bring it back up again for
purposes of testing /etc/rc.conf syntax?
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