New to mac and Snow Leopard.

I sometime want to temporarily stop all my Internet connections while
running some apps. 

In windows I used a firewall- Zonealarm- to lock off Internet activity
as long as I needed.

Is there any way to do this natively (with a click somewhere) in Snow
Leopard - without needing to pullout the Ethernet cable.


TIA 

In article <boeul5pop97hv0b5v0oefrirospa73rp26@4ax.com>,
<newto@imfake.oat> wrote:

> New to mac and Snow Leopard.
> 
> I sometime want to temporarily stop all my Internet connections while
> running some apps. 
> 
> In windows I used a firewall- Zonealarm- to lock off Internet activity
> as long as I needed.
> 
> Is there any way to do this natively (with a click somewhere) in Snow
> Leopard - without needing to pullout the Ethernet cable.

in the network preference panel, set up a network configuration with no
interfaces enabled, or with bogus info if it requires at least one (i
haven't tried turning all off). then switch locations via the location
menu under the apple menu.

In article <boeul5pop97hv0b5v0oefrirospa73rp26@4ax.com>, newto@imfake.oat 
wrote:

> I sometime want to temporarily stop all my Internet connections while 
> running some apps. 
> 
> In windows I used a firewall- Zonealarm- to lock off Internet activity 
> as long as I needed.
> 
> Is there any way to do this natively (with a click somewhere) in Snow 
> Leopard - without needing to pullout the Ethernet cable.

Try this:  Open System Preferences.  Click on the Network icon.  In the 
left panel, click on the service that has the green dot.  At the bottom of 
that panel, click on the gear icon.  In the resulting popup menu, choose 
"Make Service inactive."  If more than one has a green dot, do it for all 
of them.

That should do it for you.

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newto@imfake.oat took to the world wide interwebs to proclaim:
> Is there any way to do this natively (with a click somewhere) in Snow
> Leopard - without needing to pullout the Ethernet cable.

Open a Terminal and do:
(turn off network interface:)
sudo ifconfig en0 down

(turn on network interface:)
sudo ifconfig en0 up

'man ifconfg' for more.