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regarding ifconfig and rebooting
Authored by: webbix on Jan 21, '05 03:32:07PM

I would also think 'ifconfig' is the way to go on this. I speculate that the only way the change in the preference.plist would activate is via a reboot. There is no doubt that you can change the IP without rebooting.

I use various location settings on my TiBook and prefer to sleep it to 'refresh' all apps as some things (mail, remote control apps, etc) get confused. However, this seems much less an issue these days.

I would think a reboot would be more critical on an OS X server as it is picky about having nameservice running and configured. So, changing the IP may mean that it does not gracefully reconfigure the host name.



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