I have an RHEL3 server on which I would like to change my default route. Every site I've seen that shows how to do this ends with doing "service network restart" or "/etc/init.d/network restart".
I've got applications running which I assume will not take kindly to having the ethernet interface restarted and I'm wondering if there's any less drastic to just remove the old route and add a new one without having to completely restart networking.