On Ma, 21 iun 11, 16:34:24, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I speculate that my previous efforts failed because I had not changed > the (correct) dhclient.conf before reboot. Presumably before upgrade > there was only one such file (under dhcp3/).
My guess is your previous attempts failed because you didn't restart Network Manager. > NetworkManager, not ifupdown, is managing my network connection. [snip] > P.S. I used VNC to keep connected while the interface went down. Maybe > someone brave could get away with > nmcli con down id "Auto eth0"; nmcli con up id "Auto eth0" A simple '/etc/init.d/network-manager restart' might have also worked. You're already very brave to be running Network Manager on a remotely administered machine :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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