Re: network restart

[Shachar Or <dawnlight@lavabit.com>]

On Thursday 28 August 2008 06:34, 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?

Use dhclient.
>
> Thanks for any pointers, Bob
>
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> Concordia University College of Alberta,
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