From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) Description of problem: Changing the IP address in ifcfg-eth0 and then doing a /etc/init.d/network restart does not reset the IP address (as reported by ifconfig) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and change the ip address 2. issue /etc/init.d/network restart 3. check ifconfig for new ipaddress - old one is still being reported / used. Actual Results: IP address remains unchanged. Expected Results: The new IP address should have been used. Additional info: Reproducable on two different machines, with different network addaptors.
Please check 55404 for my comments on this problem. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55404 I provided an explanation and a suggested patch. Regards, Werner
Sorry duplicate bug - I tried searching but did not find this one!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55404 ***