On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > > >>Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for > >>example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon > >>were running. > >AFAIK if you have no firewall and no daemon listening there is still > >some response (service not available?). > > Are you saying that if you shut down your etherport and stop the > IP daemon, that the hardware does some sort of handshake?
IP daemon? What do you mean by that? I thought IP stuff is implemented in the kernel. I guess if shut down all software related to the network there will be no answer, but then why would you connect it to the internet? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
