[ILUG] Why stop networking at shutdown?

[Daniel Shaw]

> So, that got me thinking...  Why is networking torn down at shutdown
> at all?  Would it not be useful to keep ethernet interfaces up and
> a routing table in place?  This is a RHEL4 clone, but I'm aware

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201d/0201d.htm

The above gives some interesting ideas about leaving networking
running on a halted system and also some of the limitations and issues
with doing so.

- Daniel