Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> [2016-05-17 08:05 -0400]:

> Greetings all;
> 
> 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily.
> 
> This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a router 
> I needed to do a hard reset on, and reconfigure to do my stuff, but my 
> normal home network isn't on the usual 192.168.1.1 class C, and a hard 
> reset puts the router back to the 1.1 address.
> 
> So in order to use eth1 as a path to this router, I have to do a separate
> 
> sudo ifconfig eth1 up
> 
> as a sudo service networking restart will not restart the second eth1 
> stanza in my interfaces file, starting only eth0.
> 
> Normally the interface is not even graced with a cat5 in the socket, and 
> ATM it is but the far end of 5 feet of cat5 is laying on the floor.
> 
> Is it possible to make this init.d/networking script start everything it 
> finds in the interfaces file?

Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated"

Elimar
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