Re: @crayon - rebooting after network change
"borrowed it from xBSD (no problem with that, at least they got some good code)"
Apart from all the security holes. Remember the ping of death?
"how, as far as I have seen, no version of xBSD, Linux, Apple OS X, Solaris or anything vaguely UNIX-related, needs a reboot after changing network settings"
Neither do current versions of Windows.