FreeBSD-11.2 routing and networks

[James B. Byrne]

On Mon, January 7, 2019 15:11, John Johnstone wrote:


>
> I haven't used service netif restart remotely but I would expect that
> you would loose your connection if it was going through the default
> gateway just as if you issued the ifconfig command manually.  It has
> the advantage though of taking the IP and gateway simultaneously from
> rc.conf which allows you to re-establish your connection to the box
> again after the changes are in effect.
>

This advantage is what I am trying to achieve.  But, my experience has
been that it is impossible to re-establish a remote connection with
the host until after it has been rebooted.

Issuing the commands:
    'service netif restart && service routing restart &'
has worked for me in the past on CentOS Linux hosts.  But I cannot
seem t get this combination to work on FreeBSd.


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