[ale] network rant

[H. Adrin Story]

If you are talking about changing IP addresses form the command line of 
M$  2000 or XP.  I don't know if it exist on anything else, check out 
netsh. It is twice as hard to figure out than the wizard.

As far as changing in Linux.  I have never had a problem like that. At 
least I can recall. Other than Mandrake in the dueling config files. 
Think I would setup something using the wizard than later change it in 
the command line.  Reboot 2 weeks later and it is broken.  Uninstalled 
Mandrake.



Mark Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> If you find a way to change the IP on the fly I would like to know too. 
>  I had a conflict occur when I bridged two networks in my house.  I 
> wasted way to many hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong 
> trying to fix an IP address conflict.  I never reboot any of my 
> systems.  I am probably on the extreme in this regard but my complete 
> disgust for OS's that can't do anything without a three finger salute 
> has made me stubborn.
> 
> 
> Mark
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:29 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
>> If the external IP address and DNS for a systems changes, why do I have
>> to REBOOT the linux machine to make all of the networking function
>> properly?!?!?!
>>
>> Changed an ISP. Migrated all of the old IP's to the new IP's. Migrated
>> the firewall to use the new IP's. Restarted networking and firewall.
>> Found the LAN couldn't browse to certain web sites (<gag><spit>AOL,
>> MSN</spit></gag>). Went round and round with MTU settings, traceroutes,
>> tcpdump, tequila (it didn't help, but it calmed things down a bit).
>> Finally, I rebooted the firewall box and all was right with the world.
>>
>> When, oh when, is the networking stack going to FLUSH memory on startup?
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