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.
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