On Monday 17 July 2006 17:01, Aparna Appaiah wrote: > Dear List, > > I connect and disconnect to the internet using etc/init.d/networking > start|stop. When I switch on my PC, DHCP automatically gets connected > at startup. How can I avoid this? > > I am using Debian Sarge.
well, there are two things you can actually do. One is disable the initialization of the interface at startup ( see Harsh Busa's email ). The second is to disable networking completely. For this, use update-rc.d utility. See the man page for more info. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
