Service network restart

This relates to Linux System Process Initialization (SysV).

Linux 2.0

service network restart

How to restart network in Ubuntu Server:

/etc/init.d/networking restart script based command.

Redhat / Fedora / CentOS

CentOS 7 restart network service

In centos 7 or RHEL7, the network service name is changed to “network.service“, issue the following systemctl command to restart network service on your current system:

systemctl restart network.service

or

systemctl restart network

To check the status of network service, run the following command:

systemctl status network.service

Debian / Ubuntu / Mint

Use service to run a System V init script such as networking.

service restart networking

Debian 6 : command error /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces

command error /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces

Restart networking for the latest version of Ubuntu server.

systemctl restart networking

To start networking service, enter :

sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

OR

sudo service networking start

To stop networking service, enter:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop

OR

sudo service networking stop

A note about desktop users

If above command failed, try the following command:

sudo service network-manager restart

OR systemd based Ubuntu system (latest version:

sudo systemctl restart network-manager