How to prevent net.eth0/wlan0 to start?

Ray ishido

Hello,

surely a noob question but I don't find the answer:
Net.eth0 and net.wlan0 start at boot, but they are not programmed to start:

erik258 · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:

Hello,

your network interfaces are being automatically started by, um, either hotplug or coldplug. See /etc/conf.d/rc to modify which services are started automatically. Take a look at lines 39-46 in particular. They describe how to add entries in RC_PLUG_SERVICES so that particular network interfaces don't automatically start.

For your purposes something like this should do the job:

Ray ishido · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:36 am Post subject:

Hi,

thank you for your answer.
It didn't solve the pb. here is my /etc/conf.d/rc (only the lines that are not commented)

kmare · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject:

you have

[ b ]RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.*"[ /b ]
[ b ]RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo"[ /b ]

in your file.. you should remove the [ b ] and [ /b ] .
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Ray ishido · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

hi,

No, in the file [ b ] and [ /b ] are not present. I wanted to underline those lines in my post but didn't notice it didn't function.

VinzC · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

erik258 · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:21 am Post subject:

phpBB formatting aside, that seems right to me. Do you have any net.* devices in your rc-scripts? Boot and default shouldn't contain them
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luispa · Guru Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 340 Location: España

Not sure, but just in case, there are several "need net" in the other init.d scripts.
will them launch the net.* ?

Luis

VinzC · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:31 am Post subject:

WastingBody · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 105

NetworkManager will start those devices on their own. Put this in your "/etc/conf.d/local.start"; it will disable NetworkManager from starting the wireless interface until you want to start it with the applet.

VinzC · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject:

WastingBody · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 105

It would be nice to have one of those nifty little check boxes that could disable networking by default.

joeklow · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 29

divago · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2010 Posts: 84

hi, i got same problem here
(net.eth0 and net.wlan0 still start even if i rc-update deleted it, and NetworkManager/wicd does'nt start)

btw someone adviced me to just delete /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 script; i dunno if this is working, 'cause at the moment i cannot reboot the pc

so i'll try it as soon as possible

hope this could help you

skellr · l33t Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 698 Location: The Village

Also make sure that net.wlan0 or net.eth0 isn't a symlink to net.lo in /etc/init.d/

divago · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2010 Posts: 84

trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

I have a similar problem in that whenever I start eth1, it defaults to dhcp and requests an address even though I have specifically specified a static one. Why does it not read from /etc/conf.d/net?

bornmw · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 34

bornmw · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 34

just for the record - /etc/conf.d/rc is baselayout 1 and is now deprecated
use /etc/rc.conf which is baselayout 2