Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread boris
> Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance: > > Hi, > >> > Could someone please point out where I made the mistake? >> >> When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your >> shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it >> could finish doing what it was s

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
>> But as I said, I ran the script from a screen session, so that makes me >> wonder >> why the execution was aborted. >> >> But is running '/etc/rc.d/netif restart'' known to cause problems? I think >> I >> shouldn't have to use scripts like these just to change a setting on the >> network inte

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Christoph Schug
On Wed, May 09, 2007, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: > But as I said, I ran the script from a screen session, so that makes me > wonder > why the execution was aborted. > > But is running '/etc/rc.d/netif restart'' known to cause problems? I think I > shouldn't have to use scripts like these just to

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
> Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance: > > Hi, > > > > Could someone please point out where I made the mistake? > > > > When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your > > shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it > > could finish doing what

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bram Schoenmakers wrote: > Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance: > > Hi, > >>> Could someone please point out where I made the mistake? >> When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your >> shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it >> could fin

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance: Hi, > > Could someone please point out where I made the mistake? > > When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your > shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it > could finish doing what it was supposed to.

Re: Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 09/05/2007, at 8:31 PM, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: Hi, I tried to reduce the MTU of a network interface on a remote FreeBSD 6.2 machine. So that means changing this line in rc.conf: ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.128" to ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netm

Network interface restart

2007-05-09 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
Hi, I tried to reduce the MTU of a network interface on a remote FreeBSD 6.2 machine. So that means changing this line in rc.conf: ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.128" to ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.128 mtu 1472" Of course, there's a real I