Re: Faster booting when disconnected from network
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:24 pm, CW Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:10:40PM +0100, Elvis Cehajic wrote:
> > Jerry L Bash wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > >by simply disabling the network (thinking that I could then do 'ifup
> > >eth0' to bring up the network if it in fact connected).
> >
> > ...
> > Look at /etc/init.d/networking.
> > Disabling this init script should do it.
>
> The solution I prefer would be commenting the auto line for the
> interface in /etc/networking/interfaces (e.g. #auto eth0)
>
> The ..init.d/networking script also sets some kernel spoofing
> and ip_forwarding options, which may be desired.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> --
> Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
> -------------------------------------------
> GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free.
You might want to take a look at ifplugd. I will detect if you are unplugged
or not. If you boot unplugged, it will allow for a fast boot. Then if you
plug in your network, it will do the network initialization automatically.
John
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