On 06/07/11 11:49, Thanasis wrote:
> On a system which serves a LAN as NAT gateway, when the ADSL (pppoe)
> link dies or when I restart net.ppp0, a lot of services like named,
> dhcpd, squid, samba, sshd, etc are also restarted, for which there is no
> reason. This is very uncovenient because the LAN depends on the system's
> services for name resolution etc.
> Anyone else seeing this?

If you are on baselayout 2, I'd bet you have rc_depend_strict="YES" in
your /etc/rc.conf. If you change that to NO, you might see the behavior
you are expecting.

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R