On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:34:50 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 28 Mar 2016 at 10:49:14 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > What is the recommended way of restarting network services after, > > say, changing the parameters in /etc/network/interfaces? > > Guessing game number 1: No /e/n/i before; no /e/n/i after; no > indication of which parameters. > > > service networking restart doesn't seem to do the job properly. > > Guessing game number 2: No description of what is meant by "properly". > For some years now (long before systemd) we have been advised that restarting the 'networking' init.d script, even using the Debian-recommended 'invoke-rc.d', may not bring up all interfaces correctly, and the only safe way to restart everything was to... well, restart everything, individually, manually. The 'deprecated' word was used in anger. I haven't yet seen any advice superseding this. -- Joe
