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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:17:55 -0500
From:      Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifdown/ifup under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <4B2A4BA3.10309@FreeBSD.org>
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Sandra Kachelmann wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Igor V. Ruzanov <igorr@canmos.ru> wrote:
>> |Under RedHat Linux I can configure an interface, routes and so on in
>> |/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1,
>> |/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/routes-eth1 then simply run:
>> |
>> |$ ifup eth1
>> |
>> |and it will set all the routes/netconfig/aliases I just configured.
>> |
>> |Is there something similar in FreeBSD?
>> |
>> |I tried configuring aliases in /etc/rc.conf and running:
>> |
>> |$ /etc/rc.d/netif restart
>> |
>> |but that just ended in errors that the route was already configured
>> |and so on. Sure I could do all the work manually with ifconfig and
>> |route but that's not my question.
>> |
>> Under FreeBSD (as well as under Linux) you could use Zebra (Zebra/Quagga
>> projects) to configure any interfaces/routing specific things.
> 
> I try to avoid doing complex routing things on my servers. I leave
> that up to the NOC guys. They can do that on their fancy cisco
> switches. I want just one route per interface :-)
> 
> I just wanted to add a seperate route/ip for the second interface,
> make it permanent by adding it to /etc/rc.conf and tell my FreeBSD to
> pretend it's booting up by running /etc/rc.d/netif restart. As others
> pointed out I forgot /etc/rc.d/route.
> 
> Sandra

Hi all,

I use "/etc/netstart", since it includes all of the commands listed
previously, as well as others that start the DHCP client, firewall, etc.

Regards,
Greg
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