network restart

[Robert Jerrard <rjerrard@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

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?

Thanks for any pointers, Bob

-- 
Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics,
Concordia University College of Alberta,
7128 Ada Blvd., Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada.
Phone: (780) 479-9291, Fax: (780) 474-1933.