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On my armbian-Debian desktop, right upper corner, there is the dropdown icon - shows my internet connections.
It has “enable networking & enable wifi”. I ‘unchecked’ them so that they are NOT enabled. But when I look below at the printout for “ip addr”, for ‘eth0 & eth0.2, it shows “state up” for both.
DOESN’T THAT MEAN THAT MY NETWORK INTERFACES FOR THE ETHERNET CONNECTIONS ARE ACTIVE “NOT” DISABLED? I printed it out results for both “ip addr” & “ifconfig -a”.
............................
~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
link/loopback
inet
inet6
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether
inet
inet6
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether
6: eth0.2@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default
link/ether
inet
inet6
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Sometimes when i 'disable networking' from the dropdown menu, I see that 'ip addr' says 'state up' but other times it says 'state down'. This is a longshot, but could someone being remotely connected to my computer, via hijacking the browser, have anything to do with it?
Sometimes when i 'disable networking' from the dropdown menu, I see that 'ip addr' says 'state up' but other times it says 'state down'. This is a longshot, but could someone being remotely connected to my computer, via hijacking the browser, have anything to do with it?
I just answered that question in my previous post.
But no, I don't think someone could remotely activate the internet connection on your computer. Any sort of remote hijacking I know of requires an already working internet connection.
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