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Easily disable network connections when necessary
Authored by: hamtoolie on Jun 17, '03 10:58:47AM

My guess is that you switched over to dialup without turning off ethernet. OS X supports multiple network interfaces at one time. By switching to dialup, you probably left ethernet as active as well. So you'd still have a valid ethernet connection and a dialup connection with nowhere to go.

To turn ethernet off, go to your Network pane in System Preferences and in the drop down menu where it shows "builtin ethernet" or "internal modem" it should also say "Network Port Configurations". Through that, just click the ethernet checkbox off. Save that as your no connection location.



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Authored by: hamtoolie on Jun 17, '03 11:00:32AM

This message was supposed to be in reply to osxpounder's comment.



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Easily disable network connections when necessary
Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 17, '03 03:07:21PM
Thanks. I was realizing that while you were posting, I think. You're right. I posted two images on the web to show what needed to happen: I need to make sure my new location is set up using the Ethernet connection [not the modem], and I also need to tell the Mac not to get its IP address the usual way [DHCP in my case]. Screenshots:

Choose the right connection to affect
Prevent the Mac from getting a proper IP address

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