I have a series of static routes in route-eth0 Recently I had to made changes and could not find an effective way to get the old routes out and the new routes in. ifdown-route seems to apply the content of route-eth0 to take down the routes listed and ifup-route brings up routes based on route- So what ends up is that the old routes never go away, just new routes added. ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 works, but is a bit heavy-handed for only changing routes. So how do I clear out the routing table and have it rebuilt based on ifcfg-eth0 and route-eth0 without bouncing the interface completely?