On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:07:30PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
- When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through
eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?
I use "ifplugd" to do this; apt-cache show ifplugd
It seems I've already got ifplugd installed and configured. I checked its docs and it said to remove the line "auto eth0" from /etc/network/interfaces which I did.
It then didn't work at all, so I went back and had a closer look at the docs (one large portion of humble pie for me) and it seems that it may conflict with hotplug and said to remove the call to "ifup" from /etc/hotplug/net.agent. I went and had a look at this script and found it to be one of those immensely complicated and clever shell scripts which are quite beyond my capability to understand (note to self: learn bash one day!).
Any suggestions? (Its not really important BTW, it would just be nice ;)
Cheers, Richard