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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:35:03 +0100, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar  
<ramkumar@iastate.edu> wrote:

> An explicit call to /etc/netstart tells me that the route & devd with  
> their
> pids are already running - though I dont know if this takes into account  
> the
> new chages I've done & restarts the network.

Try
/etc/rc.d/netif restart

followed by
/etc/rc.d/routing restart


Michael