Restarting networking

[John T. Moran]

Actually I'm using a speadstream 5100 for the dsl. It does all the pppoe 
negotiating with the provider. I don't use any pppoe software on the 
computer itself. So, are you saying for that, I just need to plug that 
cable back in and connect from the modem itself rather than the os and 
that should take care of the dsl end?

Thanks.

John



Christoph Georgi wrote:

> 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
>>
>