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. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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