Re: starting and stopping networking

[James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>]

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?

Thanks, James
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