It would be helpful to be able to temporarily disable AF_INET socket connections (I don't care about IPv6 for now).
What I'd like to do is create an environment for a Python script that appears like the network interface is down, so any remote socket stuff should fail (like an HTTP GET request to Google's home page, for example). Anyone know an easy way to do that? Maybe by manipulating the socket module or something? I'd still like to be able to access the internet from other programs (like my Web browser, IM app, etc.) while I'm working on this script, so unplugging the network cable or just temporarily shutting down networking for the whole system aren't really acceptable solutions. Maybe chroot would be useful, but this seems a little complicated for what I'm trying to do. Setting up some kind of Xen or UML (user mode Linux) environment, and just disabling networking within that virtual machine would possibly work, too. -- Adam Monsen http://adammonsen.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
