I'm runnin Sarge on my notebook... and I am constantly mobile.. sometimes conected to a network, sometimes not...

When I'm not connected to a network I get that "DHCPDISCOVER for eth0" or whatever it is that runs for like 30 seconds before being like "oh, you're not getting dhcp?"

I wanted to see if I could either disable the dhcp lookup from booting at all and then just do a ifup eth0 later... or, what would be more practical in my case... to change the anount of times it tries to lookup... I would be satisfied with 1 interval... because it should connect right awa if I'm on it... and if i'm not... i want it to just give up right away... any ideas?

There is a good guide here: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/syste...g/index_3.html

If you put "noauto" in /etc/network/interfaces it won't be automatically activated at boot time.

thanks..

any other suggestions on lowering the wait time for dhcp?

I'm not sure about this, but if you use pump, you could try adding "timeout XX" to /etc/pump.conf Where XX is the number of seconds. Or you could add "timeout XX" to /etc/dhclient.conf if you use dhcp-client.

m_yates THANKS!

I checked for a /etc/dhclient.conf first, and I had one.. so i opened it up in vim... and it already has a ton of lines in it just commented out.. and one of them was #timeout 60;

So I uncommented it and changed the time to 3... I rebooted to see what would happen and it dd exactly as planned... checked for 3 seconds and continied without.. this wasn't so hard.. but wouldn't have thought to look in there...