On Mon 28 Mar 2016 at 19:43:30 +0100, Joe wrote: > 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.
And until the OP gets his act together you probably won't.