Change IP address of ethernet device while system is running

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2016, 12:53 +0100 schrieb Christoph Pleger:

> command 'service networking restart'. But with that, the ethernet
> device

you should never ever do this since this tears out the whole networking
stack from the system ... rather run "ifdown $interfacename" and "ifup
$interfacename"

if you actually restart the networking stack, loopback devices will be
killed/restarted too (along with any daemons providing protocols though
localhost etc) ... this can for example cause dbus to restart ... which
is a very bad thing on a desktop where apps communicate through dbus.

ciao
	oli
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