Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:53:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting nat to refresh its rules Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108282251440.67736-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <001301c13037$64fad820$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > 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? Restarting the natd process will do the trick...it may be difficult from outside though. You could write a shell script to do it pretty easily. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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