Author: seifried
Email: seifried@seifried.org
Web Page: http://www.seifried.org
Date Submitted: Wed, Jul 15, 1998
Status: New Entry

Requester: anonymous
Request Made: Wed, Jan 21, 1998

Releases: 5.0
Platform: all
Category:  Networking and netcfg
Category Listing:  How to setup networking without netcfg?

Issue

How to manage the networking setup on a Red Hat Linux 4.x or 5.x 
machine without using the Red Hat control panel? I have no X 
running on my server! 

Response

either use: /etc/rc.d/init.d/net stop|start or (more blunt) ifconfig - 
lists interfaces ifconfig eth0 down - kills eth0, substitute ppp0 for 
ppp, etc. DO NOT kill off lo, it enables the machine to talk to 
itself, and is a virtual interface in any case. When you down the 
interface you also nuke all routes associated with it. -seifried 

References

man ifconfig