In article <47f575c20801211153u45920d20p42c459883f04f10a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > After a bad network interface configuration (ifconfig eth0 127.0.0.1), > I cannot recover the network without rebooting the kernel. This is interesting. Can you post us also the output of "ip addr", "arp -a", "ip neigh" and "ip route" commands? Also you need to make sure it is not a iptable problem, so also post the content of the tables ("iptables -L" or better "iptables-save"). Also check "dmesg" as well as "netstat -S" for errors or drops. Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html