Debian 7 Restart Network
Im using Debian Wheezy (7) desktop with DHCP. I had problems switching from wired to wireless and back, etc. I found that following other instructions did not work. The network will go down no problem;
/etc/init.d/networking stop
netstat will show you that the network is down. Except;
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Does not bring the network back up. Adding these two commands fixed the problem;
ifconfig eth0 up
service networking start