/sbin/init.d/net stop is not working

[Hector Vargas]

I have 8 servers and some of the will not response to "/sbin/init.d/net stop", the command will not error out but the network configuration and routing tables will remain active like the command was never run. however /sbin/init.d/net start will refresh the network configuration.

[RAC_1]

Any changes to it? Compare it with a system where it is working. Alos, you may want to add -vx to script and check what exactly is happening.

[Mike Keighley]

This is simply because /sbin/init.d/net stop doesn't actually DO anything !

If you examine the script you will see:
stop)
exit $OKAY
;;

Depending what you are trying to achieve here, you might be able to use a mixture of
# route delete net ...
and
# ifconfig ... down

[Hector Vargas]

/sbin/init.d/net is empty.