-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 January 2003 12:24, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Lundi 30 D�cembre 2002 12:36, Sascha Noyes a �crit : > > Hi, > > > > Yes, the box is a laptop. It is sometimes connected to a broadband > > gateway which gives out an IP address via DHCP, but sometimes not. If it > > is disconnected everything (as Brook Humphrey noted) runs extremely > > slowly. I did: "chkconfig --level 2345 network off", but this only turned > > off networking on the next boot. > > You must use chkconfig --del network to permanently prevent network at > boot. Then use service network start/stop manually to launch/shutdown the > network. > > However, this is not the perfect solution, as you still need loopback for > most applications. My personal solution is to have a network profile with > loopback only for when i'm roaming, and to switch between different > profiles with symlinks.
Could you give a short synopsis of how you create a netword profile, and how you switch between different profiles with symlinks? Or maybe point me in the way of some documentation? Thank you very much, Sascha - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FxpHgzJdfX+cTW8RAuFVAJ0eNeYEzNGoM0f0b5fifo4513/mWwCeJ+8X 7xQhfGJQPQ3rWny5C+7yNqo= =UcqP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
