Re: network restart
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 09:30 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,27.Aug.08, 21:34:38, Robert Jerrard wrote:
> > I just got a new Siemens modem for the Telus high speed enhanced
> > service. If I turn off the modem then turn it back on my Debian amd64
> > system has an IP address of 169.... when it should be a 192.... address
> > from the DHCP set-up. No problem, just restart the network, right?
> > However, when I do a
> >
> > /etc/init.d/networking restart
> >
> > it claims to have reconfigured the network but the IP address is not
> > changed. I still have the 169... address. A reboot resets the IP
> > properly but I should not have to reboot. Any idea why the soft
> > networking restart does not re-do the IP properly?
>
> Check if you have zeroconf or network-manager installed and purge them.
Thanks Andrei, I had network-manager installed, purging it fixed the
problem.
Bob
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