A kind fellow named Tony Sauri emailed me off-list with the hope of
helping me save face. While I do greatly appreciate the gesture, I
lost that battle a long time ago. :-)
As Tony pointed out to me, the correct usage has the interface name
coming *before* the command ("ifconfig eth0 down" not "ifconfig down
eth0"). This lends credence to the theory that I need to spend less
time hacking and more time sleeping.
While this does bring the interface up and down now (yay!) it doesn't
do anything to dhclient; taking the interface down with ifconfig
leaves dhclient still sitting on its old lease, and taking the
interface up again leaves the interface without a correct IP address.
I'm sure I could fix this with five minutes of Googling, but right now
I need sleep.
Thanks a lot to everybody who has responded. :-)
--
William Tracy
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"We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with
unsecured networks named 'linksys'."
-- Randall Munroe
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