rtnetlink answers file exists

When you replace dynamic IP to static IP, you may need to restart your netwrok on Debian as follows.

$sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
…
…. reconfiguring network interfaces…rtnetlink answers file exists
…

However, error happens here “rtnetlink answers file exists”. How to solve it???

Run following commands could solve this problem

# ip addr flush dev eth0
# /etc/init.d/networking restart