enviroment variable to disable network interfaces?

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

Is there an enviroment variable I can pass to an application, to hide any network interfaces from it?

eg something like:
HIDE_IFACE="eth0" myapp

to hide eth0?

jpl888 · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject:

Why do you want to do that, security is it?

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

I want to test various network apps in an enviroment where they have no network access, without actually having to disable the interfaces on the machine.

jpl888 · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

Would you not just shut the interface down while you are doing the test?

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

I can, and that would work, but it would be more convenient to have a way to disable network for an invidual application.

I will do that if there is no alternative, but ideally I'd like to do it this way.

jpl888 · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:

Maybe one of the developers knows different but I would say the chances of you being able to do that are slim.