On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote: > Lemme see if I can frame this question coherently. I've got a Debian Sid > machine on a LAN behind a firewalling router (router does dhcp offers, > too). That router's acting really flaky (it was given to me as a freebie > because it was acting flaky). I'm thinking of just hooking that machine > directly to the 'net (university network) for the next week or so while > await the arrival of a router that works normally. Of course I don't wish > for the machine to be on the WAN unprotected. At the same time, I don't > want to install a firewall on it because that could complicate setting up > the LAN, once the normally-operating router/firewall arrives. What I'm > thinking of doing is maybe creating a script that will start/stop network > services and make a dhcp request, that could be run in the interim while > I'm awaiting the new router. In other words, I would stop networking when > I'm not actively doing something on the 'net, restart it when I need to do > something on the 'net. So my basic question is: how do I stop networking > services on Debian Sid (I know how on Slackware, but Debian differs)? > How do I restart them later, and send a new dhcp request at the same time? > Any input on my interim networking method for this machine would be > appreciated, as would pointers for accomplishing what I've outlined above, > if that proves advisable/feasible. >
to stop network ifconfig eth0 down to start ifconfig eth0 up > Thanks, James > - Calin -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in". Kim Alm on a.s.r. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
