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

[Derek Broughton]

Mitch Contla wrote:

> On 5/24/07, Danny Colligan <dannycolligan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Assuming eth0 and correct /etc/network/interfaces
> 

There are people still using /etc/network/interfaces?

(OK, afaik network-manager still doesn't handle the static IP, but it does a
better job that /etc/network/interfaces for DHCP).
-- 
derek