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Re: Customer wants to switch off ethernet !


On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:44 +0100, Manfred Gruber wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> One small question about ethernet on redboot. My customer wants that on 
> redboot the ethernet configuration is disabled. So he don't want to have a 
> default configuration in redboot. Would it then be enough to put all 
> IP-Addresses to 0.0.0.0 like it is when you start up redboot the first time, 
> or would this produce problems.

I'm not sure that would be sufficient - maybe if you choose static IP.

Perhaps better yet would be to just remove network support from
RedBoot completely:

  % ecosconfig remove eth_drivers

This will disable all network functions.

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