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Re: ADSL - disconnect



solomon@barak-online.net wrote:
> 
> Now that I'm properly connected to ADSL on my LINUX machine (Thanks again to
> Dani Arbel for all his help), I have a question. Until I can find the time
> to do something about security (Firewall, disabling services, etc), I want
> to disconnect when I don't need the INTERNET. Can anyone tell me how to do
> it?
> 

Killing the PPPOE ppp daemon or doing ifconfig eth0 down (assuming that
eth0 is what connects you to the ADSL termination unit) should do the
trick I assume. Didn't check though - I'm on the ADSL experiemnt.

gby.

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