> I know that I could test this by plugging in and out the physical network
> connections, but I'm not really in a position to do this on any of the
> above
> boxes.
If you are on Windows you can use TCPView to kill connections without
having to physically disconnect the network:
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx>
I'm sure there are similar tools for other platforms.
Regards,
Johan Stuyts