Re: [TCLUG:18571] Lap net

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> I was really looking for some suggestions like "don't forget
> to add xxx to your script, because you must take care of the yyy
> case."  I'd like to make the machine automagically do it, so the user
> (whether me or not) doesn't have to be aware of what services are running.

Hmmm, well the two things that tend to hang things, NFS, DNS...

> Are you saying just run a script that appends the 'stop' option to every
> network command in /etc/init.d?

Actually, nothing I can think of in init.d will cause a problem with no
net link. Just make sure any NFS mounts get unmounted so that doesn't
hang things, and if possible disable DNS lookups somehow, though last
time I tried I don't think I could stop everything from hanging on DNS
all the time... :P

Haven't delt with a non-networked machine in a long time. ;)			

> Is it a good or bad idea to 'ifconfig eth0 down'?

Well, if you remove the PCMCIA device, that should happen
automagically...