On Wednesday 29 October 2003 08:28 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:05 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:58 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > > Thanks Derek and Bryan. I think I have not made myself clear.
> > > I have seen the above site of derek. Though I put it in
> > > subject, I didn't clarify in text. I want not only switching
> > > from cable to dial up and back which is explained in the
> > > above page, but also stopping connection to internet even
> > > through cable and of course dialup. TIA. Here I want to tell
> > > something
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're asking here either, but if you just
> > want to stop a cable connection, and its going thru your NIC,
> > then as root:
> >
> > service network stop
> >
> > or
> >
> > ifdown eth0 (or whatever number your NIC is)
> >
> > should work.
> >
> > If this isn't what you're looking for, I apologise.
>
> I was going to suggest something along the same lines. Only,
> create a simple bash script to issue the ifdown eth0 command to
> your network adapter when you dial up your account, or you might
> be able to add that command into KPPP although I don't know why
> you would feel that this is necessary.
>
> If you have a good firewall setup which is necessary anyway for
> the broadband connection, then there is no reason to not just
> leave the ethernet connection active, it will not be used for
> anything since the route is shifted dynamically so that
> everything goes through the dial-up adapter.
I'm not real sure what LV's tryin to do, but I think this whole
deal is ISP/phone line specific. In my case when I got DSL I kept a
dialup Earthlink account for a while. The DSL line uses micro
filters to split out analog voice signal from the digital line. So
I figured, no problem, I can connect both my ATU-R (dsl modem) and
my dialup modem. DSL line to the ATU-R, filter out an analog signal
to the dialup modem.
No go. With both connected, neither would work even tho the
other was not in use. Only physically disconnecting one or the
other would allow me to to switch between digital DSL and analog
dialup. OTOH, I've got the DSL line into the ATU-R, and using a
micro filter to also connect my phone, that works. Since LV's cable
is a digital line, and dialup needs analog, I reckon he's in a
similar situation as mine.
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