Dear List, What is the recommended and easy way to restart network subsystem on a desktop without need of rebooting the computer?
My installation is a home use, multi-user, family sort of thing computer. I have CDC_ETHER broadband connection to an ISP. Cable modem is plugged to na USB port. eth1 is ISP eth0 is home-net rooted to WiFi I use NAT (ip_masquerade) Time to time, say once in a week, I need to restart network for various reasons, connection drops by ISP, does not come up at system boot, etc. On Lenny I used to, as admin, execute something like this, #!/bin/sh # restart network su -c'\ modprobe -r cdc_ether;\ modprobe cdc_ether;\ cd /etc/init.d;\ ./networking stop;\ ./networking start;\ ./arno-iptables-firewall restart;\ cd -\ ' On Squeeze, it sometimes complains that eth1 device does not exist yet. My idea is to automate the task, and set a watchdog over ISP connection, and call a safe script when it drops to bring it up again. Many thanks. -- Tomas Kral <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
