network card doesnt work after i turn it off and on

slinky2004 · 09-23-2005, 11:17 PM

my ethernet works, but if i do an "ifconfig eth0 down" and then turn it on again with "ifconfig eth0 up" it turns on but it doenst actually work, i cant access the internet but can ping other computers on my network. the only thing that fixes it is restarting and i was wondering why. can anybody help me?

gbonvehi · 09-23-2005, 11:36 PM

Do you use dhcp? Try using /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop && /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start

masonm · 09-24-2005, 12:24 AM

If using dhcpcd, you should release the dhcp lease using dhcpcd -k eth0 as this will both take down the connection and properly release the ip lease.

slinky2004 · 09-24-2005, 09:45 PM

dhcpcd -k eth0 and dhcpcd eth0 worked, and so did running rc.inet1 stop, rc.inet1 start. for some reason rc.inet1 restart doesnt work tho. and why dhcpcd? apparently dhcpd and dhclient are installed but they dont do anything... it took me ten minutes of messing around with dhcpd to catch that extra c

Genesee · 09-24-2005, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by slinky2004
dhcpcd -k eth0 and dhcpcd eth0 worked, and so did running rc.inet1 stop, rc.inet1 start. for some reason rc.inet1 restart doesnt work tho. and why dhcpcd? apparently dhcpd and dhclient are installed but they dont do anything... it took me ten minutes of messing around with dhcpd to catch that extra c

dhcpd is the dhcp server
dhcpcd is the client

I am guessing its for "daemon" and "client daemon" respectively - but I could be wrong

rc.inet1 doesn't seem to have a "restart" case (at least the version I'm using):

Quote:

case "$1" in
'start') # "start" brings up all available interfaces:
lo_up
eth_up 0
eth_up 1
eth_up 2
eth_up 3
gateway_up
;;
'stop') # "stop" takes down all existing interfaces:
gateway_down
eth_down 3
eth_down 2
eth_down 1
eth_down 0
lo_down
;;
*) # The default is to bring up all interfaces:
lo_up
eth_up 0
eth_up 1
eth_up 2
eth_up 3
gateway_up
esac
# End of /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1

slinky2004 · 09-24-2005, 10:59 PM

mine didnt complain when i gave it a restart parameter, i guess it just did the default case. it never occurred to me to look at the script