[Nottingham] NTL Nottingham Network Changes (& elsewhere?)

[Roger Light]

On 06/04/06, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> David Aldred wrote:

> > I'd suggest that on a Linux box connected directly to the cable modem all
> > that's needed is to restart the network - 'service network restart' should do
> > it on a Mandriva system, your distro may (and will!) vary!
>
> Exactly so. Note also that you still should restart shorewall (or
> whatever front end you're using for iptables firewalling). Then you
> still need to restart any processes that are still assuming whatever
> your old IP address was.

Don't most distros restart those automatically when you restart the network?

Roger