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From: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: problems with ethernet interface
Message-ID: <7265@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 1 Oct 88 17:10:43 GMT
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In article <7247@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In my experience, "ifconfig ae0 up" was a no-op.  Programs complained
>"network down" anyway.  Someone else placed the line
>ifconfig ae0 down; ifconfig ae0 up
>for cron to execute every 5 minutes or so.  I haven't tried this yet; perhaps
>explicitly turning off the software state of the interface toggles some
>bit which allows the interface to be reset.

Having discovered the network wedged again this morning, I can say that
typing:

ifconfig ae0 down; ifconfig ae0 up

does work.  

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Steve Dyer
dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU
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