turning off localhost?

[RON FLORY]

> From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
> Behalf Of njcross at sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:38 PM
> To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: turning off localhost?
> 
> I'm trying to remember a gui program in earlier YDL distros
> that showed localhost,loopback etc with buttons that would connect or 
> disconnect them from the system. Can anyone remember the correct name 
> of that program?
> Which is the best way of disconnecting localhost from the system?

  Its not really a connection, but a valuable network interface.

  there are probably GUI 'training wheels' to do this, but the easiest
way to disable the loopback device is simply to type:

    ifdown lo

  from a root shell.  When you want the loopback device back again
(and you WILL), simply type:

    ifup lo

  This is the normal *nix way of doing things, without depending
upon the GUI wrappers.

ron