restating network

[Dev Guy]

Thank you Mark, all three commands work like a charm.

I am using yahoo mail and it's retarded with the lines and no wrapping? So I appreciate you painfully reading my email.

I've installed Slackware several times on a PC box as a stand alone server and dual boot. Had hours of fun with lilo, xwindow and building some of the opensource app locally =) ...but I still have a lot to learn when it comes to Linux.

My current PC is fast enough to handle Linux running in VMWare with no issues of sluggish response even with KDE running. I like the rollback feature of VMWare, it's the ultimate undo when you're just playing around! Drive space not an issues for me.

With VMWare and a virtual desktop or dual monitor setup, it's like I have 2 systems running at the same time and I can switch easily and quickly between the OSes, with dual-boot I don't have this option.

Being a Windows C++ developer, I need to be logged into Windows to get work done. I am learning CentOS on VMWare to get good at installing things and general sysadmin so I can use these skills on my remote Linux host when I decide to move my website to a dedicated Linux server.

FYI: I have VMWare running because I can install large-project build that I am testing on the VM and not worry about corruption my system. I can easily do remote debugging from my IDE/debugger into my VM image. It's like I am running the app on my local pc, so I can do all the cool power debugging I need. Once you start using VM in this capacity you will never go back to the old way of coding and debugging, having to reinstall your OS because a test build install went haywire, or the uninstall got botched, etc.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav



--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: restating network
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Friday, April 17, 2009, 1:53 AM
> On 17/04/09 01:10 AM, Dev Guy wrote:
> > 
> > I am running Linux inside my Windows in VMWare =)
> ...let the flames begin!
> 
> I won't flame you about that, but I will point out that
> your mailer sends out long lines. Could you look into
> wrapping them at 80 columns?
> 
> > OK it's a great way for me to learn Linux, but I have
> noticed at time Linux will have any network connection.
> 
> I've never found it the best way to learn because:
> 
> a) you lose some of the experience you gain from things you
> need to learn during installation eg. finding the right
> driver for a network card because there's a "virtual network
> card"
> 
> b) it's not a fair comparison of how efficiently Linux will
> run on the hardware, because it's running virtually. "Oh,
> look Linux is slow.." no, virtualized OS's are slow,
> especially when run from a slow host OS.
> 
> c) if you're using up the space on the drive for a virtual
> disk anyway, dual-booting is a better option.
> 
> If you don't have the extra hardware, why not dual-boot?
> This way forces you to get familiar with Linux without
> allowing you to resort to back to bad habits like Windows
> :-p
> 
> > I know enough to use ifconfig to see if my eth0 card
> is up and running. Today I had to add eth0 after bootup
> using ipconfig, but noticed only a ipv6 address and not the
> ipv4 was assigned. Thus no network access for me.
> > 
> > So my question is how to I reinit the network so I can
> get internet working? I am having to reboot to fix this but
> it get's annoying at times.
> 
> Two ways which will work in most Linux distros, as root:
> 
> 1.
> 
> (This might be Debian and/or Ubunto specific.. not sure)
> 
> ifdown eth0  # should not need this if it's already
> down :)
> ifup eth0
> 
> 2.
> 
> /etc/init.d/networking restart
> 
> (note that /etc/init.d/* are scripts used to start/stop
> services. They are run at bootup, depending on the init
> level you boot it-- default one is found in /etc/inittab.
> The scripts per initlevel are sym linked from
> /etc/rc$INITLEVEL.d/ )
> 
> Marc
> 
> -- There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will
> there ever be, any
> programming language in which it is the least bit difficult
> to write
> bad code.
>   -- Flon's Law
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