Re: how to restart network without rebooting

[Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>]

In some mail from Philipp Buehler, sie said:
> 
> On 27/02/2002, Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> wrote Cc misc@openbsd.org:
> > Uh, that's not a good idea.
> > Just re-running /etc/netstart will not undo the previous configuration.
> 
> Basically yes..
> 
> > Unless you want to undo everything that netstart did in the first place,
> > by hand, you are better of just rebooting the box.
> 
> Why by hand? :}
> 
> Quick hack:
> for if in `ifconfig -a | awk -F: '/UP/ {print $1}'` ; do
> 	ifconfig $if down
> 	ifconfig $if delete
> done
> route -n flush
> arp -ad

What about stopping dhclient ?

What about bridging?

Just reboot and be sure.

Darren