[ILUG] What does 'Changing network settings' mean in simplest of all cases?

[Glen Gray]

On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 16:12, V.P.Singh Gill wrote:
> Hi,
>     I do not wish to hurt anyone, but I was a bit dis-appointed at the kind of response that I got from ILUG members. All I asked was 'How can I change network settings like IP/ netmask under RHL 7.2, without rebooting the system after making the changes. This is because Linuxconf does not work properly. And so does /etc/init.d/network restart. New IP/netmask is applied only when I reboot the system'.
>     But I got a lot of vague answers. Some asked 'What exactly do you mean. What are you trying to change ?'
>     I ask 'What does "changing network settings" mean in simplest of all cases?'
> Regards
> Vijay Gill
> 
Yeah that was a bit f@#king rude. If you want help then you have to be
open to questions. You could have been trying to setup ip aliases, DNS
settings or anything else to do with networking. It's a pretty big
topic. Wineing about "I can't change this and it doesn't work booh hoo
hoo" doesn't mean a lot to most people.

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