How come restarting networking does not restart eth0 successfully on my server? None of my CentOS virtual machines have this problem.
root@living:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:91:00:01
inet addr:192.168.1.110 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe91:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4835 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1052796 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:1129902 (1.0 MiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:23280 (22.7 KiB) TX bytes:23280 (22.7 KiB)
root@living:~# service networking restart
Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces ... (warning).
Reconfiguring network interfaces...
[PuTTY disconnects]
root@living:~# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:23280 (22.7 KiB) TX bytes:23280 (22.7 KiB)
Best Answer
The solution was replacing allow-hotplug by auto. Thanks! :)