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Subject: Re: shutting down network interfaces
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At 08:02 PM 12/18/2003, you wrote:
>I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without
>rebooting.


man ifconfig will tell you what to do.

the short answer:

ifconfig interface_card down

ie :

ifconfig ed0 down

cheers
dave