Restarting networking

[Christoph Georgi]

Your're not connecting to your dsl via a router, are you? 'networking' 
does only touch the ethernet interfaces of your computer, not the pppoe 
ones, i.e. networking will reset your ethernet interface, but as you 
wont have a dhcp server, you will not get an ip. You will need to redail 
to your isp:

To connect to your dsl again try '$ sudo pon'; the log for pppoe 
connections can be seen with '$ plog' (Please post the output if 
problems persist).

You can also go into the networking gui that should make things more 
clear: 'System' -> 'Administration' -> 'Networking'. I suppose you will 
see an Ethernet Adapter (eth0) as well as two Modem connections, one for 
cable, the other for dsl. Just activate those if applicable.

regards
.christoph

John T. Moran wrote:
> I am attempting to restart my network. I use dsl and cable (trying to 
> get rid of cable with dsl being almost as fast at half the price). When 
> I do a /etc/init.d/networking restart or stop and start I loose my ip 
> address and end up with an ip of 127.0.0.1. I am still new at this and 
> am trying to figure out how I can restart networking and pick up a new 
> ip address.
> 
> John
> 

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