eth0 down... then what...

[Robert Achmann]

Perrrrfecto. (roll your 'R's in Canada - especially near a Tim's)


Thanks!

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 20:05, Rus Foster wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Robert Achmann wrote:
> 
> > ok - newbie admin question...
> >
> > I want to test out a cool command line command...
> > ifconfig eth0 down
> >
> > wow! I can't connect to the internet...cool.
> > ok...
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 up
> >
> > no joy...
> >
> > Q: what command can I use to determine why I no longer have an internet
> > conection? netstat and ifconfig just give me a lovely bunch of summary
> > info. What do I need to look at/do to:
> > 1. verify that I am down
> > 2. get the internet active again.
> > (NO GUI PROGRAMS - command line answers only please! - although that's
> > appearantly the only way to manage disk volumes & volume groups (whoah -
> > later discussion!) )
> 
> Do a nestart -rn before the following
> 
> Try /etc/init.d/network restart
> 
> Look at netstat -rn
> 
> You will at least get a new default route
> 
> Rus
> 
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