10.3. System boot without starting rc.tcpip
Connections using TCP/IP are often peer-to-peer. There are no master/slave relations. The applications, however, use a client/server model for communications.
Removing the rc.tcpip entry in /etc/inittab means that you are not starting any server applications during IPL.
Note
If you have a graphic console, make sure you also remove the rc.dt and rc.tcpip entries in the /etc/inittab file. Otherwise, your console will hang when you login. Unless you have an ASCII terminal connected to the serial port, there is no way you can recover since you will not be able to communicate with the machine through the telnet or rlogin commands with no TCP/IP server application started.
Without the server applications ...
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