Objective
The following article will describe various ways how to restart network from command line as well as from Graphical User Interface (GUI) on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
- Software: – GNOME Desktop
Requirements
Privileged access to is required for GUI network restart
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudocommand - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Other Versions of this Tutorial
Instructions
Graphical User Interface
Bring up network management window by right-click on the top right corner network icon and locate the network connection you wish to restart then click on Turn Off.
The Network Icon will disappear. To turn on the network again, left click on the top right corner arrow down, locate your network interface and click Connect.
Command Line
To restart network from the command line you have the following options:
netplan
$ sudo netplan apply
systemctl
The first command line network restart uses the systemctl command to perform the restart of network manager.
$ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
service
Same as the above can be accomplished with the service command:
$ sudo service network-manager restart
nmcli
Controlling the Network Manager with the nmcli command will restart the Network Manager directly:
$ sudo nmcli networking off $ sudo nmcli networking on
System V init
The old fashioned and now obsolete way using System V init scripts directly is still available on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart OR $ sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart
ifup/ifdown
In this last example we will restart the network interface directly using the ifup and ifdown commands. Note the the -a option will tell the ifup and ifdown commands to restart all available network interfaces marked as “auto”:
$ sudo ifdown -a $ sudo ifup -a