FreeBSD-11.2 routing and networks

[Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH]

How about setting a cron job before making the changes? Set it for 10
minutes into the future, perhaps.

Kurt

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:58 PM James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, January 7, 2019 15:11, John Johnstone wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
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> 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.
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> 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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