Re: Misbehaving Linux Routers

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

rahul b jain cs student wrote:

> What happens next is very strange. I open the network configuration tool,
> look up all the setting without modifying any entry. Click on apply and
> then type the command 'service network restart'. Once the network is
> restarted, if I try to ping to the any router / default router it works.
>  
You did *two* things there.  Try just the service command.   If that 
works, check the order of files in /etc/rcN.d, where N is the run level 
from /etc/inittab.  You may have added (or found) a dependency between 
running services that is not properly set up.

Alan

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