I would like to reset my network settings and services entirely as if starting from scratch. I had recently installed Ubuntu a few days ago, and deleted a important boot file. After installing Ubuntu again, my network was not auto configured like my previous install. And my network did not work. Then I think I messed up the network settings too much in attempting to fix it, and now I would like to completely reset network settings. My system is an old HP Pavilion dv8 running Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1 dual boot.

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I found a good command which has helped me to fix my problems.

sudo iptables -F

It reset my network settings and my network started to work. I hope this would help someone who had a similar problem.

Source:- Ask Ubuntu

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The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease...

$ sudo dhclient -r

Now obtain fresh IP address using DHCP on Linux:

$ sudo dhclient

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Try this:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Enter:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

eth0 is assuming that you are using an Ethernet labeled "eth0". You can confirm that with ifconfig.

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