Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Since I was SSHed into the boxes, I could not test ifconfig (down then >> up!). >> > > Just so you know, you can do this type of thing even with SSH. > (I don't know what would of helped that situation, but for future ref...) > > #echo ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 | at now > Oh, neat. Didn't know how to do down and up in one command line without writing a script. > through ssh will work fine, and you will still be connected after :) > Not any real difference from doing a service network restart. When your interface goes down, SSH just waits until the interface comes up, and then you get all the messages that occurred between those two events. I am going to have to note this command for future use (it is kind of like an ifbounce command :) ).