problems with ethernet interface

[Steve Dyer]

In article <7247 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer at 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
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