How to start, stop, or restart networking service under UNIX

How to start, stop, or restart networking service under HP-UX, OpenBSD, AIX and other Unix like operating systems?
You can use the following commands as per your UNIX operating systems.
HP-UX Unix start / stop / restart networking service
# /sbin/init.d/net stop
# /sbin/init.d/net start
# /sbin/init.d/hostname start
IBM AIX Unix start / stop / restart networking service
Simply type the following command to make changes to tcp/ip
# smitty mktcpip
Start network service:
# startsrc
Stop network service:
# startsrc
OpenBSD start / stop / restart networking service
See this faq for more information on how to restart networking service:
# sh /etc/netstart pnc0
FreeBSD start / stop / restart networking service
See this post for more information on how to restart networking service:
# /etc/rc.d/netif restart
Sun/Oracle Solaris Unix start / stop / restart networking service
# svcadm restart physical
Linux: CentOS / RHEL / Red Hat / Fedora start / stop / restart networking service
See this faq for more information:
# service network stop
# service network start
# service network restart
Linux: Debian / Ubuntu server start / stop / restart networking service
See this faq for more information:
# service networking stop
# service networking start
# service networking restart

Haneef Puttur

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