Date: 21 Nov 1999 15:39:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NT reliability (was: Microsoft service packs... (was many otherthreads...)) Message-ID: <8666ywarqs.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: "David Schwartz"'s message of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:44:23 -0800" References: <002601bf3311$ead8a370$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes: > > Today Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 01:57:47PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > > > > It doesn't seem to be possible to stop and start interfaces on NT; > > > > instead, you reboot. Not what I would expect of any good OS, let > > > > > > FWIW, Windows 2000 can do this fine. It only took a few years ;-). > > > > Can it add and remove alias IPs on interfaces without the reboot > > that NT needs? > > I don't know if it's a new service pack thing or what, but I've > noticed that more and more of my NT servers _don't_ need reboots for > that. They do drop all current TCP connections, but then they're back > up just fine. It's a pain to disconnect everyone who happened to be > doing anything, but it's less painful than a reboot. Takes less time too, one should note. > > It scares me though, because I have no idea why sometimes it works now > (like the last 4 times I did it) when it never used to. Fear not. Many many generations of Unixers have lived with interfaces that can come and go without rebooting. They survived ;-) -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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