[ale] network rant

[Randal Jarrett]

You should be able to make the changes in the appropriate files for your
distribution, then do ifdown <ethxx>;ifup <ethxx>.  You can also use
ifconfig directly on the port but I believe that the first method is the
best.  I am sure that there are many other ways as there are people on
this list :-)


Randy

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:28 -0400, Mark Wright wrote:
> 
> If you find a way to change the IP on the fly I would like to know too. 
>   I had a conflict occur when I bridged two networks in my house.  I 
> wasted way to many hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong 
> trying to fix an IP address conflict.  I never reboot any of my 
> systems.  I am probably on the extreme in this regard but my complete 
> disgust for OS's that can't do anything without a three finger salute 
> has made me stubborn.
> 
> 
> Mark
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:29 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > If the external IP address and DNS for a systems changes, why do I have
> > to REBOOT the linux machine to make all of the networking function
> > properly?!?!?!
> >
> > Changed an ISP. Migrated all of the old IP's to the new IP's. Migrated
> > the firewall to use the new IP's. Restarted networking and firewall.
> > Found the LAN couldn't browse to certain web sites (<gag><spit>AOL,
> > MSN</spit></gag>). Went round and round with MTU settings, traceroutes,
> > tcpdump, tequila (it didn't help, but it calmed things down a bit).
> > Finally, I rebooted the firewall box and all was right with the world.
> >
> > When, oh when, is the networking stack going to FLUSH memory on 
> > startup?
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