On 12/15/05, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ubuntu still takes a ghastly long time to log in and present the GUI. On
> the other hand, once I'm in I can go to System/Admin/Networking and play
> with the config for the card.
Ubuntu's Default boot sequence seems to have been built on
the assumption that it would be running on a networked PC
so it will wait for dhcp to time out on any ethernet interfaces
(even if the ethernet interface is not active)
you can disable dhcp probing by changing the configuration in
/etc/network/interfaces
An alternative (and perhaps more appropriate, depending on your use case) solution is to change the DHCP timeout in
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to a more sane value. The default is to wait a minute, which imho is pretty asanine. In my experience, DHCP answers in less than 10 seconds (usually 5 is even safe...) if it is going to answer at all. So, that is one of the first things I change on pretty much every Linux machine I work on. That way, you still get auto-config of networking on boot 99% of the time, but don't have terrible boot times when you are disconnected. Best of both worlds.
-Quentin-
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