Re: starting and stopping networking

Ray Olszewski
2004-01-04T22:24:25Z

At 03:41 PM 1/4/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
> >
> > > 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 :-)
> > >
> > Well, not a whole lot. If I were using Slack, I would just do
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop and /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start. I guess I'm trying
> > to find out what is the equivalent on Debian. I'll root through the /etc
> > directory some more and see if I can figure out anything.
> >
>Ok. Taking Jacob's suggestion, I rooted arund in /etc/init.d and found a
>file caled "networking." Looking over its contents, I decided the
>relevant commands for stopping/starting networking on this Debian host are
>"ifdown -a" and "ifup -a", respectively. Just tried it and it seems to
>work. Have I stumbled onto the defnitive solution to my short term
>problem?

One that will serve, at least. Even simpler would be to run (as root, of
course)

/etc/init.d/networking stop
/etc/init.d/networking start

BTW, if you take networking down and later restart it, getting the same
DHCP lease would not be all that amazing ... especially if the DHCP server
assigns long lease lives (the lease itself may still be good, and both your
host and the dhcp server would remember that).