On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Brian Johnson wrote:
> Abraham,
> 
> I think what you may want to do is adjust the DHCP timeout for eth0.
> For ethernet devices, it's pretty good to assume that if after 10
> seconds it doesn't receive DHCP it probably wont. So on my laptop,
> in /etc/conf.d/net I have:
> 
> dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10"
> 
> Which will timeout eth0 after 10 seconds, thus making the system boot
> time faster.


Or, install sys-apps/ifplugd and have it taken care of automatically.


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