Johann Spies wrote: > And I cannot stop my network. The following does not work: > > /etc/init.d/networking stop > service networking stop I am surprised that /etc/init.d/networking stop doesn't stop the network. But if you have brought your network up and then changed your configuration it won't be able to bring down the old now unknown network. Instead you would need to have brought down the network *before* modifying the /etc/network/interfaces file. Because if the network is up and then you modify the interfaces file out from under it then it is too late. You would need to take manual action to get the running system in sync with the configuration file. Of course a reboot would do it but you should be able to manually reconfigure the network to get back in sync okay. (The 'service networking stop' is simply a wrapper script which calls the above and there won't be any functional differences between then. It is a Red Hat thing that doesn't exist in Lenny or before but was added to Squeeze via Ubuntu just barely a year ago.) > /etc/init.d/ifplugd stop > service ifplugd stop I did not see from your information that you had ifplugd configured for these devices. Therefore it doesn't seem like stopping it would be related. And again, using the 'service' wrapper is no different than just calling /etc/init.d/service directly. > sudo ip addr del 146.232.129.151/32 dev eth0:0 The name you are using here, eth0:0, isn't defined in your configuration file. You would need to use the same device name as you specified there which is eth0 not eth0:0. In any case this would just remove the alias and wouldn't bring down the entire device. It would be a component action in the entire process of bringing down the interface. Side Note: If you want to add a label to your interface when it is created you would use the label command to do so. Example: ip addr add 146.232.129.151/32 dev eth0 label eth0:0 > sudo ip addr del 146.232.129.151/32 dev $IFACE That has no chance of working since $IFACE probably isn't defined on the command line. > Only with the following command can I stop the network: > sudo ifconfig down > Previously everything was easy: just > '/etc/init.d/networking stop/start/reload' I think the root cause of your problem is that you had your running network out of sync with the configuration files for your network because the configuration files were modified with the system running. I have hit that many times myself, kicked myself, restored the saved version of the file, brought things down, swapped files, brought things back up. If you didn't know about that issue then it can be very confusing. In any case, a better command to bring down an individual interface is the ifdown command (and its friend ifup to bring it up). sudo ifdown eth0 sudo ifup eth0 Again, this needs the configuration file to be in sync with the running system. But normally that is the case. In which case the above commands work normally and the interface is brought down or up or whatever. Hint: In the old days interfaces were quite static on systems. But with the coming of removable and hotplug devices such as PCMCIA or USB network interface cards there was a need to move to a more dynamic system. Before networking needed to come online at boot time and go offline at shutdown time. But that isn't sufficient now. Now devices come online when they are plugged in and go offline when they are disconnected. Everything has been rewritten to be event driven. For those of us who were used to the old static boot time system it is a little bit of a change in mind set but a worthwhile one because of the new capabilities that it provides. Basically this means that you rarely if ever should have the need to run /etc/init.d/networking stop but would bring an individual interface offline with ifdown eth0 instead. Bob
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