On Thursday 28 August 2008 06:34, Robert Jerrard wrote: > I just got a new Siemens modem for the Telus high speed enhanced > service. If I turn off the modem then turn it back on my Debian amd64 > system has an IP address of 169.... when it should be a 192.... address > from the DHCP set-up. No problem, just restart the network, right? > However, when I do a > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > it claims to have reconfigured the network but the IP address is not > changed. I still have the 169... address. A reboot resets the IP > properly but I should not have to reboot. Any idea why the soft > networking restart does not re-do the IP properly?
Use dhclient. > > Thanks for any pointers, Bob > > -- > Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, > Concordia University College of Alberta, > 7128 Ada Blvd., Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada. > Phone: (780) 479-9291, Fax: (780) 474-1933. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
