How do I restart Linux network service?

by Vivek Gite · 15 comments

RedHat Linux command to reload or restart network (login as root user):

# service network restart
OR
# /etc/init.d/network restart

To start Linux network service:
# service network start

To stop Linux network service:
# service network stop

Debian Linux command to reload or restart network:
# /etc/init.d/networking restart

To start Linux network service:
# /etc/init.d/networking start

To stop Linux network service:
# /etc/init.d/networking stop

Ubuntu Linux user use sudo command with above Debian Linux command:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

To start Linux network service:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

To stop Linux network service:
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop

{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Saravanan October 4, 2005 at 4:23 am

service network start ======>to start Network under Redhat Linux
service network stop ======>to stop Network under Redhat Linux
service network restart =====> to restart Network under Redhat Linux

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2 Enrique Alvarez June 22, 2006 at 5:19 am

I have debian, and I can’t restart any service with the command
# /etc/init.d/networking restart,
please help m ewith this, I have heard about a command to do it , something like invoke-rc.d or insserv
Thanks in advance.

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3 nixCraft June 22, 2006 at 10:48 am

The command is:
/etc/init.d/networking restart

No need to use invoke-rc.d here. What error you are getting?

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4 Doan minh duc June 23, 2006 at 3:04 pm

I’m using Knoppix 5 and I can’t restart any service with the command
# /etc/init.d/networking restart

i see the error like this:
bash:networking :command not found

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5 Anonymous December 1, 2009 at 2:31 am

go into /etc/init.d and then from there run: ./networking restart

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6 nixCraft June 23, 2006 at 7:51 pm

Doan,

I can use the command /etc/init.d/networking on Knoppix version 4.0

Use following command to restart:
# /etc/init.d/network restart

OR use GUI tool:
Click the Knoppix menu in the bottom left corner > Point to Network/Internet >
Click Network Card Configuration > You can start/stop or change network settings.

OR use network-setup GUI tool command:

# network-setup

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7 Paranoid July 20, 2007 at 5:35 pm

holy crap, i did service network restart and now my box is inaccessible

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8 chris October 3, 2007 at 10:44 pm

Thanks!

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9 Jason April 7, 2009 at 5:10 am

Oddly enough you can’t restart networking from the /root directory or the /etc/init.d directory..
I found that if I cd to /home THEN i run /etc/init.d/networking restart (in debian) otherwise I just get “command not found”

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10 Josué May 26, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Thank you!

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11 John June 26, 2009 at 4:34 pm

@Jason: Try “/./etc/init.d/networking restart”. The first / says start from the root…

@Paranoid: lol! NEVER do this command unless you can actually touch the server with your bare hands!

the redhat example works fine for me!

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12 Satbir July 10, 2009 at 3:44 am

As your page helped me. Would like to thank you…

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13 alpesh July 24, 2009 at 2:21 pm

I want to laurn linux redhat how to laurn plz tell me

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14 Alexiei July 26, 2009 at 12:05 pm

With my backtrack 4 pre-final, I can resume only wired (eth0) network but wireless doesn’t work.
Which is the command for wireless?
Thank you

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15 Linton February 6, 2010 at 3:03 pm

I’m with Paranoid. Several times my network has gone down due to power glitch or some other reason. I try the suggested:

service network restart

which does “work”. By that I mean that it shuts down eth0 and loopback and restarts loopback. Every time that this happens, I must reboot, then eth0 works again. Please tell me how to restart without rebooting. I run FC10.

Thanks!!!

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