Package: ifupdown Version: any Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
Hello, The usual way to restart an interface is: ifdown $interface && ifup $interface It will be nice and handy to provide an script (ifrestart) to do this. I have implemented my own version of such script that does that, it also allows to restart all interfaces with "ifrestart -a". Feel free to modify it as you want. Thanks!
#!/bin/sh # # script to restart network interfaces with "ifup && ifdown" # # Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <[email protected]> # # ifrestart () { # Avoid interface names starting with - (confuses ifquery evaluation) if ! echo "$1" | grep -q "^-" && ifquery "$1" >/dev/null; then ifdown "$1" ifup "$1" return $? else echo "Interface $1 is unknown" return 1 fi } help () { echo "Use: " echo "\t$0 [interface-name]\t\t Restarts interface-name" echo "\t$0 -a, --all\t\t\t Restarts all interfaces (including allow-hotplug ones)" exit 0 } if [ -z $1 ]; then help fi if [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then help fi if [ "$1" = "-a" ] || [ "$1" = "--all" ]; then echo "Restarting all interfaces ..." for iface in $(ifquery -l; ifquery -l --allow=hotplug); do ifrestart $iface done else ifrestart $1 fi exit $?
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