How to explicitly drop dynamic network connection in favor of static one?

[Mitch Contla]

On 5/24/07, Danny Colligan <dannycolligan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Therefore, I changed the entries in
> /etc/networks/interfaces to reflect the static values and did a sudo
> /etc/init.d/networking restart.  This, however, did not make the
> server drop the dynamic connection.  I eventually accomplished this by
> the Windows universal solution (i.e. a reboot) and then the server
> used the static address.
>
> My question is, what would be the "right way" to do this?  That is,
> explicitly drop the DHCP connection in favor of the static one without
> rebooting?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Danny Colligan


Assuming eth0 and correct /etc/network/interfaces

$ sudo ifdown eth0

edit /etc/network/interfaces

$ sudo ifup eth0

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Mitch
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