On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:38:53AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@wcug.wwu.edu> wrote a message of 37 lines which said: > You shouldn't have to setup a firewall as a workaround either. If your NIC > card is configured for a particular IP and you want to stop it, then > simply unplugging the ethernet cable should do it. No Unix work that way.