On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 22:46 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > I had to unplug my network connection (FC5; single PC-cable modem) for a > couple of hours today, and when I plugged it back in, the kernel > recognized that the link was up again, but the dhcp client did not > reconfigure the link. I tried ifconfig eth0 down/up--no change. I > finally just killed and re-started dhclient, which worked but seems > pretty clunky. What's the recommended solution? Well, if you can't find something/GUI/auto-type-program to do this for you, then you can at least use below command to get it going again.. service dhclient (or whatever it is) restart which will stop/restart the service for you. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY
