Rebooting the Station

Rebooting the Station

When the netmask value is set, the station must be reconfigured and rebooted to incorporate the new network address into the stations routing tables. Always reboot routers before regular stations, because they provide routing information to other stations and networks.

Reconfigure the kernel and reboot the station to initialize your changes and interfaces. Some systems prompt for permission before reconfiguring the kernel, while others simply return a shell prompt. In either case, enter the reboot command explicitly:

/etc/autoconfig

Automatically reconfigure the operating system? (y/n)y

reboot