restarting the network

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Dale wrote:
<snip>
> How ever I have discovered that in SuSE 8.0 they have
> changed this a little bit, which is causeing me to
> wonder.
> rcnetwork restart still works.. and will succesfully
> restart the network interface. However the rcroute
> command is no longer avilable.  I have only been able
> to completely restart the network and routing by
> switching to init 1 and back to init 3 or completly
> rebooting the system.
> 
> Question is does anyone else know a way to restart the
> route without going through all these hoops?

Well, in RH, you can do "service network restart", which will 
re-configure interfaces *AND* routes.  If you're careful, you can even 
do this over SSH and not loose your network connection (assuming, of 
course, the box will still have the IP you're talking to after the 
re-config).

I'd suggest digging through your init scripts and find out what is 
configuing your routes...a grep of the rc.? and init scripts for the 
filename of whatever configures routing in suse would probably be a good 
start...

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net