Backgrounding Lan connection
 

Hi everyone!

I'm using a laptop connected trough internet using a router.

Now.... when I'm not connected to internet and I have to give a presentation in front of the class with my Pc, I nead it to load fast.

The eth0 port seams to be the only thing that is really eating up time, especially when it's not connected to the router....

ps: I'm using Mandrake 10.1 if that can help.

I presume that you are getting an IP through DHCP?

I have the same problem, and I fixed it by adding the following line to my /etc/conf.d/net file (not sure how Mandrake handles these settings, but it is likely similar):

dhcp_eth0="-t 5 -D -h $HOSTNAME"

The key was passing the "-t 5" which tells dhcpcd to use a 5 second timeout.

Cheers!

Nope doesn't seem to exist conf.d.