[Techtalk] network restarting

[Cindy Wong]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:57:40 +0300, "Maria Pinjanainen"
<maria.pinjanainen at abo.fi> said:
> On Monday 06 October 2003 00:42, Rick Harwood wrote:
> > I would like to know if Debian offers an easy way to shutdown the network
> > and restart it without rebooting the machine?  SuSE has the command
> > "rcnetwork restart" that shuts down the network and then restarts it and I
> > was wondering if Debian (specifically Knoppix) has a similar command.  I
> > have tried to hunt down a  command in Debian that would allow me to do this
> > but have been unsuccessful.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Rick Harwood
> 
> Similar command to  "rcnetwork restart" is networking restart. 
>  # /etc/init.d/networking {start|stop|reload|restart}
> 
> Ok, if here is something better, let me know. ;-)

How about ifup(8) and ifdown(8)?  I'm pretty darn sure they work in
Knoppix and Debian.

Ciao,
Cindy
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  Cindy Wong
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