Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:17:35 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Darek M <darek@nyi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating system's natd config from natd.conf Message-ID: <55E4C410-41FD-4028-AF53-5A5E8A517C52@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <44B7F7FA.8050903@nyi.net> References: <44B7F7FA.8050903@nyi.net>
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On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Darek M wrote: > What is the procedure to make active changes made to /etc/natd.conf? > > Sometimes, restarting the natd process with an HUP drops my > connection. Other times the restart didn't seem to make any > difference. The only way I've ever updated natd rules was to > restart the server and never was able to find anything relating to > this topic online. Basicly, you need to kill and restart natd right now, and doing so will lose track of any active state for currently-open connections. Natd dies when it gets a SIGHUP, but I've always wanted to extend its signal handler to trap SIGHUP and re-read the config file. -- -Chuck
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