I don't need it currently. I did get good benefits out of it with some embedded devices I used to need frequently. It made start up noticeably faster on a pair of net4801 boxes that ran (mostly) only dhcpd + pf + ftp via inetd YMMV
Now I wanted to see if it worked with a more complex set up. It didn't. The biggest bottleneck right on the new system is netstart which goes and tries to get a dhcp lease first, before starting the interfaces with static addresses. Proposing a fix for netstart.sh is not likely because the tools for that kind of thing appear to be in /usr/bin not /bin. The work around seems to be to not bring up the interfaces that use dhcp until rc.local is run. /Lars
