turning off localhost?

[njcross]

Thanks very much Ron and Gilbert for your answers. :-)
Ron,without training wheels, what you type to get localhost down?
Thanks again guys.


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:42:33 -0600, RON FLORY <ron.flory at adtran.com> wrote:

>>  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