Re: Restarting Networking in Debian
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Steve <sdclark79@gmail.com> wrote:
> Carlos Mennens <carloswill <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5
>> & Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command:
>>
>> /etc/init.d/networking restart
>>
>> Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange error:
>>
>> Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may
>> not enable again some interfaces ... (warning).
>> Reconfiguring network interfaces...done.
>>
>> Not to mention any changes I made to my static IP address in
>> '/etc/network/interfaces' didn't take effect which leads me to believe
>> the command I ran above didn't restart the network daemon or is not
>> forcing it to look for changes.
>>
>> I asked on the forums and I can't get a straight answer as to what is
>> the official command in Debian to restart the networking daemon? There
>> can't be six different answers and someone on the dev team has to have
>> a official correct command to do something as simple as restarting
>> networking.
>
> Hello, I am probably too late to answer this question, but you are correct: both
> "service networking restart" and "/etc/init.d/networking restart" do not run
> correctly. There are two easy options, though. 1st is so issue the same command
> twice once as "service networking stop" and again as "service networking start".
> The second is the command to stop and then start, issued by the command
> "service networking --full-restart".
If the NICs have an "auto <nic>" (or "allow-auto <nic>") line, they
can be controlled with "service networking ..." or "ifup|ifdown -a"
(or "ifup --all"/"ifup --allow=auto").
If the NICs have an "allow-hotplug <nic>" line, they can be controlled
with "ifup|ifdown --allow=hotplug".
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