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 that as a user.

> Whether in will stop local loop also. My 
> broadband cable provider charges me by Bytes transfer. I am using wwwoffle
> for offline browsing with dailup account now. With broadband ie always on
> system if I want to relook a page it will connect to net for the page. As
> this will lead to data trafic and it will cost, I want to avoid this. I
> want to go to net only when I want. Stored pages by wwwoffle proxy I would
> like to see without connecting to net. I hope I have made myself clear.

Well, I am not familiar with wwwoffle, but if it is a caching proxy, then 
issuing a reload command will NOT draw the files from the net but will pull 
them from the proxy storage.  The whole point of having a caching proxy is to 
speed up browsing time for frequently accessed pages by pulling the files 
from the cache instead of downloading them from the net.  The only time that 
you download from the net is when the page is not present in the cache.  So, 
dropping the net connection would seem like overkill if you are simply trying 
to minimize your bandwidth load.  Better to use a caching proxy and make the 
cache really big.

I am pretty sure that you could do that with Squid or any other caching proxy 
server.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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