Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-30 Thread Merlin Zener
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:29, Tom Brinkman wrote: > [...snip] > > 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 ana

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:51 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Thanks Bryan. First thing first. First `service nerwork stop` will do the > trick for me as I understand. Yes, either that or just issue an "ifdown eth0" from CLI or script but you need to do that as root, you shouldn't be able to do th

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 7:58 pm, 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

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
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

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 1:58 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 7:54 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 1:21 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > I have dial up account with an ISP. I am also going to get broadband > > > cable connection from another. Is it possible to switch

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
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 sw

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

[newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-28 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have dial up account with an ISP. I am also going to get broadband cable connection from another. Is it possible to switch of connection to internet at will without physically removing cable connection by any software means? If so how? Any pointers please! -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari A