From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 20:12:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FC337B401 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.155.124]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010829031228.EXFG28468.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:12:28 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7T35iD00232 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:05:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001301c13037$64fad820$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Subject: getting nat to refresh its rules Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:04:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, I've been keeping myself busy over the past 3 weeks installing FreeBSD servers configured with NAT & ipfw to act as corporate gateways to the Internet. So far I've deployed 3 systems, with 4 more to do in the next month. My boss and the companies that we're doing this for are more than impressed with how well it is all working. However, I have one big beef with the current setup, and that is there is no easy way short of a reboot to get natd to re-read its configuration, as given by the -f option. This means that if I add a new forwarding rule, I have to reboot the box to get natd to use its new configuration. Does anyone know of a way to get natd to re-read it's configuration file, preferably without interrupting any sessions that are in progress? -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message