Re: starting and stopping networking

caszonyi
2004-01-04T21:19:37Z

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:
> >
> > > something on the 'net. So my basic question is: how do I stop networking
> > > services on Debian Sid (I know how on Slackware, but Debian differs)?
> > > How do I restart them later, and send a new dhcp request at the same time?
> > > Any input on my interim networking method for this machine would be
> > > appreciated, as would pointers for accomplishing what I've outlined above,
> > > if that proves advisable/feasible.
> > >
> >
> > to stop network
> > ifconfig eth0 down
> > to start
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 up
> >
> ifconfig eth0 down seems to stop the connection alright. ifconfig eth0 up
> just brings up the previous configuration, though. It doesn't seem to
> make a new dhcp request, which I think really needs to happen. Anyway, no
> traffic goes to/comes from the 'net after I do ifconfig eth0 down, then
> ifconfig eth0 up. You guessed right, btw, that eth0 is the connection to
> the 'net. Anyone else care to take a shot?
>

my slack 9.0 has the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 for
bringing up dhcp

if [ ! "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" = "" ]; then
DHCP_HOSTNAME="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME"
fi
/sbin/dhcpcd -t 10 ${DHCP_HOSTNAME} -d eth0

where DHCP_HOSTNAME is the host name of the DHCP server

Hope it helps a bit :-)

> Thanks, James
>

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