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Recently I messed up the network settings for my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. It does not load the network when it boots normally. Before this, I did ip addr flush eth0 instead of eth1. The machine is now in rescue mode and I have the normal disk mounted to /mnt.

How would I reset the network settings? The machine is a dedicated server from OVH so I only have remote control.

Zanna
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mitchell katz
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If you can access a terminal on that server, try to update the network settings like here in that server's /etc/network/interfaces file.

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B. Turan
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The -r option explicitly releases the lease

$ sudo dhclient -r

Now obtain fresh IP address using DHCP on Linux:

$ sudo dhclient

For me restarting the networkmanager works fine but the above commands are almost equivalent of ipconfig -release/renew commands of windows to reset the network.

Syed Habeeb Ullah Quadri
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