Hi,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:10:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >> I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for
> >> my internal network.
> >>
> >> But when im trying initialise, i dont know why, its freezes.
> >>
> >> I tryed to initialise it with:
> >>
> >> /etc/init.d/networking restart
> >> ifup -a
> >
> >In general, I would do
> > ifdown eth0
> > ifdown eth1
> >before editting e/n/interfaces first.
> >
> That's pretty difficult if the network interface is between the
> administrator and the hard drive:-)
>
> So far, apart from firewall rules some years go, I've managed to avoid
> cutting myself off, but I'm aware of the risk.
Hahaha... there are few work arounds. I can think of 2 methods now.
1. use reboot with "shutdown -r now" after editing e/n/interfaces and
hope it will come back alive. (Brute force)
2. Run script to do above ifdown and ifup with 2 files
e/n/interfaces-old
e/n/interfaces
You can specify -i option to use each.
To protect script from broken terminal link, run this script in
"screen" program. If you loose connection, simply reconnect and
reactivate screen session. No reboot needed with this.
Osamu
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