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

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Tuesday 17 May 2016 13:09:33 Gilles Mocellin wrote:

> Le 17/05/2016 à 14:34, Mimiko a écrit :
> > On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> >> Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated"
> >
> > This was the only tool to fully restart all networking even the
> > interface thru which connection is made.
> > Are the `ifdown eth & ifup eth` the only option now?
>
> Just to add these commands in that thread.
>
> To restart all the interfaces as they are defined in
> /etc/network/interfaces, I do :
>
> # ifdown -a; ifup -a

Apparently I do not have something fully correct in my interfaces file, 
the above command string does not shut down or restart eth1.  It leaves 
it in the state it found it in.  Bug in ifdown -a? I dunno, and 

"ifconfig eth1 down"

also has the only effect of nuking its address block in a route -n 
report.

Kernel IP routing table
Destination    Gateway       Genmask       Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0        192.168.71.1  0.0.0.0       UG    0       0       0 eth0
169.254.0.0    0.0.0.0       255.255.0.0   U     1000    0       0 eth0
192.168.71.0   0.0.0.0       255.255.255.0 U     0       0       0 eth0

root@coyote:/etc/network# ifconfig eth1 up
root@coyote:/etc/network# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination    Gateway       Genmask       Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0        192.168.71.1  0.0.0.0       UG    0      0      0   eth0
169.254.0.0    0.0.0.0       255.255.0.0   U     1000   0      0   eth0
192.168.1.0    0.0.0.0       255.255.255.0 U     0      0      0   eth1
192.168.71.0   0.0.0.0       255.255.255.0 U     0      0      0   eth0

Spacing adjusted above to defeat my word wrap.

So how did I make it work in the first place?
DIIK. :(
So it quite likely will be gone if I reboot.

Interesting is that in a man 5 interfaces, it says the gateway address is 
colon delimited. I don't recall ever seeing that since my first install 
in early 1998.  Does anyone ever actually read these man pages but me?

Thanks Gilles

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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