How to restart network service on Ubuntu

If you are ubuntu beginner you probably didn't know how to restart network on ubuntu, in this article i will show you how to restart network service on ubuntu via command line.

Ubuntu Desktop

For ubuntu desktop you can restart the network service using this command:

sudo service network-manager restart

Of course start and stop works as well with the command above

sudo service network-manager stop

sudo service network-manager start

Ubuntu Server
For ubuntu server, since there is no GUI, restarting the network-manager service won't work, instead run this command for ubuntu server:

sudo ifdown --exclude=lo -a && sudo ifup --exclude=lo -a