Yo Neil! On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Neil J. McRae wrote:
I have been using gated for years now, on sparcs, PC's, BSD/OS, NetBSD, Xylan Omniswitch, Ascend-GRF, Morningstar routers and I've never had gdc reconfig cause any disruption other than when the operator misconfigured something. This is the same for any router when you reconfigure things changes happen.
I have been using gated in production on Linux hosts. When I do a "gdc reconfig" then gated clears out the kernel routing table, then refills it. Even on my small OSPF routing tables there is a noticeable, but short, downtime. I have never seen it last long enough to drop a connection. Unless of course I made a mistake which I never do. :-) RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 2680 Bayshore Pkwy, #202 Mountain View, CA 94043-1009 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(415)964-1186 Fax:+1(415)964-1176