startup delay

[fatherofbah]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with Linux for the first time, dual booting on an IBM Thinkpad (R31) with Windows 2000. All installed fine (except for sound but I can live without that for now). It works OK except that if I'm travelling or unplugged from the network the system takes ages to boot up. The delay is in the section:

Bringing up interface eth0

which seems to retry for a very long time. Is there a way of adjusting this timeout, the network here is quite small and fast so if it doesn't get a reply in 10 seconds it won't ever.

Thanks

[mrBen]

Probably the simplest thing to do would be to never have dhcpd startup disabled, and then just start the daemon whenever you want to connect to the LAN.

I _think_ you should just be able to edit the /etc/rc.config to stop DHCP starting, and then when you want it run 'dhcp start' as root, although someone with more knowledge (mdwatts?) might be able to confirm that.

Of course, there might be a simpler way ;)

[fatherofbah]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.