Re: changing interfaces file

On 2008-07-12, conrad <conrad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


After changes have been made to the itnerface file, how should
you make them take effect?

I did ifconfig eth0 down;ifconfig eth0 up

but that did not work. However, rebooting works.
Surely I don't have to reboot everytime I make
changes to the interfaces file?

Try ifdown and ifup, or /etc/init.d/networking restart.

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