Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:56:31 +0300 From: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi> To: "'Brian Somers'" <brian@awfulhak.org>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: /var/run/natd.pid request Message-ID: <01BC771F.49BB8990@ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>
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Hi, On 12. kesakuuta 1997 10:18, Brian Somers [SMTP:brian@awfulhak.org] wrote: > > > > I finally figured out how to get natd working, and I have a little > > suggestion: stuff the natd PID in /var/run/natd.pid. from my experiments > > when the translating interface's address is dynamic (and using -dynamic > > option), the natd process requires a SIGHUP to make the change to the > > new address. If the natd PID is available, then it will simply the process. > > I've cc'd this to Ari Suutari (the author). I don't have any problem > with this idea. > Good idea, I'll add this to next version. > I did however think that the address change was transparent (reading the > routing socket), but I havn't looked at the code. > It is automatic based on messages in routing socket. It worked for me with le & ep drivers but I haved tested it with ppp. The idea is that sending SIGHUP should no longer be necessary. Ari S.
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