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Restart network without reboot
Name: penegrande Date: August 16, 2005 at 05:48:26 Pacific OS: Linux/XP CPU/Ram: 3/1
Comment:
Does XP have a way to restart the network service without rebooting? What I'm looking for is something equivalent to what you can do with Linux, where if you make any changes to the networking settings, you can stop and restart networking by issuing a network restart command. No reboot required.
The reason I need this is because I have to periodically connect to a customer's VPN. After disconnecting from the VPN, I cannot browse my local network until I reboot.
Name: ntengineer Date: August 16, 2005 at 10:47:08 Pacific
Reply:
You can try this. Go into the network connections area where it should list "Local Area Network" and right-click on it and pick "disable" then do the same and re-enable it.
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: August 16, 2005 at 15:13:43 Pacific
Reply:
There is a new function called "Repair". It does a number of good network things that help usually.
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Response Number 3
Name: thekillerbean Date: August 31, 2005 at 22:15:49 Pacific
Reply:
Restarting network under Windows XP is a 2 step process as there is no restart option in the net command under the command prompt:
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