General :: Temporarily Disable Internet Connection On System
Jan 20, 2011
Is there any way to temporarily "switch off (and back on)" the internet connection on a system (that runs linux)? The following methods are not allowed:Turning off the router. That would lead to a lot of angry young individuals. This method must be particular to my workstation.Use root privileges (coz I do not have them).
Yank the ethernet cable from the system.Why: Sometimes the internet proves to be a distraction.I am using the following system: Fedora release 11 (Leonidas), linux kernel 2.6.30 and GNOME 2.26.3
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Mar 16, 2009
I would like to know if it is possible (and, if so, how I would go about doing so) to temporarily limit my Internet connection on a Linux box.
I am developing some new features for one of my Web sites, and I want to see how it performs when using a slower Internet connection. Although it's great for most aspects of my job to have a lightning-fast connection (around 25000-30000 kbps download and 20000-25000 kbps upload speeds), it really makes it difficult to know even what average users might experience when using some of the aspects of our Web site.
I have Linux Mint installed in VirtualBox on my computer, and I'd like to find some way to potentially temporarily "trick" that installation into using a much slower connection to the Internet for testing purposes.
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May 2, 2010
I just installed Suse Linux on a computer that had Windows Vista first.
Everything seems to work ... only that there is no Internet connection.
What could be the problem?
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Jan 19, 2011
I am using Linux operating system fedora 6 .Before today everything is going well. But today internet connection gets failed. It can not connect to the server for the internet connection. But in the same computer,installed windows operating system shows the internet connection.Please try to answer my question why the Linux operating system can not connect to the internet?
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Aug 13, 2010
I,m new to linux. I don't know how to do settings for Internet connection.
so, please send me complete detail of how to make settings for Internet connection.
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May 6, 2010
In order to be able to concentrate, I would like to have an applet (or script) to temporarily disable notifications.In the same spirit of Caffeine which inhibits the screensaver when activated.I saw this tip, but would like something which does not require reboot
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Aug 12, 2010
I'm looking to temporarily disable NetworkManager while I configure some things in a shell. It's interfering by auto-reconnecting and using the network interface in the process. I've tried killing the process but that just seems to disconnect the network not kill the NetworkManager applet. I don't want to uninstall, and I don't want to have it disabled on startup. I just want to "close" it or "turn it off" temporarily! How can I do this? Also, I'm using 10.04
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Oct 15, 2010
I have two connections for my PC, my Ethernet which is on the corporate network and my smart phone on 'usb0'. Both have full internet access.I want to stop my PC from connecting to the internet over the Eth0 while still connecting to internal servers then just have internet over usb0.If I go to the settings of 'Auth Ethernet' in the tray area, under IPv4 there is the routings section - I've tried enabling "use this connection only for resources on its network" but it doesnt work.
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Mar 25, 2010
Having an issue with PlaneShift in regards to this error in terminal:
Code:
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed! On search of the PlaneShift forums, I saw someone state disabling OpenAL would fix this.
I've searched Google and these forums, but still can't find a guide to disable OpenAL. So how would I go about disabling this temporarily so I can get PlaneShift working?
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Apr 3, 2010
Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
Compiz is installed and running on this OS
$ apt-cache policy compiz
Code:
compiz:
Installed: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2[code]....
How to disable compiz temporarily and re-enable it?I can't find System>Preferences>Compizconfig Settings Manager
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Dec 14, 2010
I'm currently trying to learn how to get around Blender, but I keep running into the same problem. Blender relies heavily on shortcuts and keystrokes to navigate it's GUI, but very often they clash with the shortcuts on my desktop. The result is that the desktop shortcut wins, making Blender impossible to use effectively.
Is there any way to disable the desktop shortcuts temporarily while using the software, and then setting them back when I'm done?
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Feb 15, 2011
Is there a way to just temporarily disable pulseaudio and use alsa instead?
Or run a program under alsa while letting pulse sit in the background?
I'm getting sick and tired of not being able to play any platinum games on wine...
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Jul 19, 2010
writing a script that will enable/disable internet connection on the one of the machines in the network(be it a DNS clearing or something else).
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Sep 9, 2010
Using ubuntu 9.10 Karmic 64 bit
Firefox version: 3.6.9 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0
about:config is default
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.6.9
When I access some websites, especially certain forums or atempt to post, the tab seems to be loading but doesn't do anything. If I then exit firefox I cannot ping anything (IP or address) in terminal. If I then open Epiphany it fixes everything until firefox next does this. This is happening from 1 - 10 times an hour and is starting to get to me.
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Oct 21, 2010
I did a bit of searching, but I guess I'm not sure of the terminology associated with what I'm trying to do.
I'm currently connected via ethernet port (NOT wireless) to my DSL modem.
Every so often my connection gets 'saturated', typically after or during a lot of bittorrent activity that maxes out my bandwith, and my speeds drop markedly, even if the bandwith isn't currently being maxed out. I'm not sure whether it's my ISP throttling my connection or something else, but as a work around, I typically just disconnect my modem from the outlet and then replug to restore normal speeds.
Is there a way to 'restart' my modem from the command line in a similar way without having to physically turn off my modem to get the desired effect?
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Apr 6, 2010
For some reason my mail server (Postfix) seems to have stopped delivering mail.
The error in the mail logs is "status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused) against all mails.
I have researched to try and find an answer, most information on this problem seems to point to a malfunction in the Anti Virus and Spam Filtering solution.
I have checked that Amavisd and Clamd are both operating and have restarted Postfix but all to no avail, squirrelmail is not working either.. ie not even producing a login page.
I have not changed anything in the config and am just wondering if anyone has experienced similar and could point me in the right direction of a solution.
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Jun 25, 2010
I would like to have all traffic from the ethernet connection out through the wireless (basically using the box as a router) however I am having some trouble doing this.
I have done this before on Windows however I am having some trouble doing this on linux, I have tried using Squid Proxy however I am having some trouble using configuring/using it.
I am using Yellow Dog Linux however I am willing to change to any other distro as long as it is compatable with PS3 (as this is what im using linux on)
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Mar 28, 2010
Failed to fetch [URL] Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)----when tor and polipo are not running---
Possible causes:
I just installed tor, privoxy, and polipo and set them up for web browsing anonymity. Other than that I don't recall making any system wide changes.
Other Info:
I can access the internet via a web browser and other programs just fine because i can manually edit each program's internet connection settings. apt-get works when tor and polipo are running. I have used tor and privoxy/polipo in the past and this has never been a problem, so I must have done something different this go around. Obviously I am not sure what that is. Attached are the applicable config files.
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Sep 12, 2010
How to set up internet сonnection in ubuntu...I have TCP / IP connection through the network card
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Jul 11, 2009
The system runs just fine then all of a sudden it "freezes". For example an input box doesn't respond nor can I scroll down the page. But when the system comes out of the freeze 5-15 seconds later, it suddenly does all the input that was used during the freeze. The scroll and letters suddenly show up. I don't loose mouse control and I can do some other system functions but not all of them.
Here are some various system info's
[osprey@host ~]$ uname -a
Linux host.tranquilpenguin.com 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 19:03:24 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[osprey@host ~]$ firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2009 mozilla.org
[osprey@host ~]$ df .....
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Dec 14, 2010
I am new to Linux and Debian. I have Compaq Presario R3000 laptop, which is 5 years old now. I have RealTek RTL8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. Currently I have a broadband connection at home. I have dual boot Windows XP Professional and Debian (which I installed a week ago through CD). I have done some preliminary tests for the network and I am posting the screenshots for the tests (e.g. lspci, ifconfig, etc.). I also did two more commands. For 'cat /etc/network/ifstate' the output was 'No such file or directory'. Same output was for the command 'cat /etc/network/options'.
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Apr 4, 2010
I recently installed ubuntu studio 9.10 amd64 on my MBP 5,3 I need an internet connection for updates and to customise my system etc I tried to connect with a wired connection but for some reason I could not configure the ethernet interface. I tried to install the broadcom bcmwl-kernel-source driver by downloading it on another computer and then using a usb stick to transfer it. I had to go through installing several dependencies including dkms and linux-headers-generic. When I finally succeeded the driver showed up in Hardware privers as proprietry but was inactive. Whenever I try to active it I hit 'Activat' I authenticate and the nothing happens. It remains inactive. The wired connection is not readily available to me so it would be great if it was possible to solve this either via a usb or cd.
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May 5, 2010
I'm running Kubuntu 10.4, and I'm having a really slow Internet connection, with Windows everything works fine.
When I upload a file to an internal Ubuntu server the speed is ok ~15MB/s.
The problem is only with Internet Firefox / synaptic, any program using Internet. Last download done with synaptic display 18KB/s when normally it should be 500.
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Jan 24, 2011
So I just installed ubuntu from a net install, and updated from the internet and posted on this site through firefox while installing vlc wich just froze at 90%.....
but when I try to add community repos it comes up with errors. And while running a system check it says I have no internet connection...
I'm connected through ethernet on a router wich works with the g5 in the other room running osx, and the pc upstairs running ubuntu meerkat. Now I had this same problem with SUSE 11.1 and worked around it by adding through terminal but I was never able to add from the GUI.
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Sep 16, 2010
I'm using RedHat Linux. In my friend system have Winxp. I have 2 LAN Cards. I'm using wired Broadband internet. So i want to share my internet connection to my friend system through another one LAN card. How can i do this
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Jun 10, 2011
I am using cent OS 5 as a proxy server. Internet is working fine on all users computers.I want to disable internet only two users in the network.Is there any way in squid that all the users can entertain internet expect two users.
In squid the network setting is
acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 http_access allow our_networks
The users IP address are
192.168.1.50 and 192.168.1.51
and my squid proxy IP is 192.168.1.10
I even remove the proxy settings in mozilla but the users again put and enjoy internet.
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Jan 9, 2011
I am running Ubuntu 10.10, and I would like to use my computer to share the internet connection from an ethernet port. For example, I would like to set up my computer as a wireless access point so I can create a network that other computers can connect to for internet.
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Nov 7, 2010
I have a big problem with my openSUSE 11.2 32bit (but I have experimented the same error with other distributions), this problem consist in a temporarily freeze of my system after some seconds or some minutes if I don't move the mouse or I don't press any key... but when I move the mouse or press any key the system magically wake up and each applications begins to run from the point where was interrupted... this problem also affect on the system clock that loses every second that the system remain frozenMy computer is a notebook with: CPU Intel Core2 Duo T81004GB RAMGPU GeForce 8600M GT
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Feb 24, 2011
How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?
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May 6, 2010
installed ubuntu 9.10.I am from India I use ADSLrouter to get connection in XP windows through WAN main port PPPoE.But after installing Ubuntu 9.10 I could not find my internet connected toMozill Firefox in Ubuntu 9.10.SO please tell me a way how to establish internet connection in Ubuntu 9.10 in a detaled way
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