On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
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