Re: starting and stopping networking

caszonyi
2004-01-04T20:49:12Z

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
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