Re: How to disable a network interface

[Nagy Daniel <n.dani86@gmail.com>]

I commented out he:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

and all I have in the "/etc/network/interfaces"-file is:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

and after reboot I still have network connection, how come? :(


2009/2/2 subscriptions <subscriptions@rdegraaf.nl>:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:31 +0100, Nagy Daniel wrote:
>> What is the -_offical_- way, for disabling an on-board LAN [like
>> eth0], I mean it stays disabled after reboot too?
>>
>> Thank you in anticipation
>
> in /etc/network/interfaces, there is a line, which brings up the
> networks on boot:
>
> ---snip---
> auto lo eth0
> ---snip---
>
> When the LAN is on eth0, simply remove it:
>
> ---snip---
> auto lo
> ---snip---
>
>
> Rob
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>