Easily disable network connections when necessary

Jun 17, '03 09:36:00AM

Contributed by: filburt1

There may be times you want to temporarily turn off your Internet connection: for example (long reason short), some HTML-based spam messages can be used to verify your e-mail address just by viewing the images contained therein.

If you're using AirPort, the answer is simple: turn off the AirPort connection, which is normally what I do. However, with my G4 tower at work, which uses a wired ethernet connection, I couldn't do that.

So, what you can do instead is to create a new network location (I called mine "No Access") and enter in bad or garbled information. Or, in my case where at work I have a static IP, I made the new location try to use DHCP (which would fail). Then, when you want to turn off your network connection, just go to the Apple menu, Locations menu, and select No Access, and you're kicked offline until you want to go back.

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