Hi Frederic,
You can probably get away with just
pfcmd configreload hard
and then a restart of both pfdns and dhcpd.
You should not have to do more than just a “pfcmd configreload” if all you
changed was to add a few switches.
Try it and let me know.
Regards,
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> On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:03 , Frederic Hermann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I use an Ansible playbook to generate packetfence networks.conf and
> switches.conf (to add new remote switches).
>
> On pf 4.5.1, after the config change, I used the following commands to make
> sure that all services take the new parameters :
>
> pfcmd configfiles push
> /etc/init.d/packetfence restart
>
> Initally I was using the following:
>
> pfcmd configfiles push
> pfcmd configreload
> pfcmd service dhcpd restart (to get new dhcpd subnet from networks.conf)
> pfcmd service pfdns restart (not sure why)
> pfcmd service radiusd restart (to get new switches from switches.conf)
>
> But the configreload part was a bit too long to run, as my switches.conf is
> now around 35000 lines long, so a full restart of packetfence is slightly
> more efficient.
>
> However, on version 4.6.1, it seems that even after "pfcmd configfiles push"
> and a packetfence restart, the dhcpd server still have the old configuration
> without the new networks, and I have to run pfcmd dhcpd restart to get the
> new dhcpd.conf running.
>
> So I'm wondering what would be the minimal set of commands to run after a
> config change in networks.conf and switches.conf, on pf 4.6.x, considering I
> use only radius method for auth&deauth ?
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
>
>
>
> --
> Frederic Hermann
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