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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: restarting natd
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Alfonso Romero wrote:
 > How can I restart natd? Using kill -s HUP <pidnumber>?
 > Or is there another more conservative way?

Be careful if you are killing natd remotely.  You might want to do 
something like:

	kill `cat /var/run/natd.pid` && /sbin/natd _flags_

...if you are not local to the system running natd.  Or reboot.  :-)

-Chuck