** Description changed: =========== WARNING =============== Doing: sudo restart networking or sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart. ============ WILL TEAR DOWN MOST OF YOUR DESKTOP ============= Networking is a generic job which brings up all networking interfaces in the right order at boot. It should never be stopped nor restarted. It is only stop at shutdown to correctly bring down all the networking interfaces in the right order again. =========== DO NOT RESTART NETWORKING =============== + If you want to reconfigure all networking interface you can use + something like: - If you want to reconfigure all networking interface you can use something like: + ifdown eth0 + ifup eth0 - ifdown eth0 - ifup eth0 + Or all interfaces with: + + ifdown -a --exclude=lo && ifup -a --exclude=lo
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