Per-Olof Litby wrote: >When Fedora boots and attempts to start network connections, it waits >for a very long time before it decides that the connection has failed, >for instance if the etherner port is disconnected. This makes for an >annoyingly long boot time when I'm not connected to a network. Yes, this is an annoyance, particularly for laptop machines that are sometimes connected and sometimes not. I use ifplugd: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/ This is a daemon which monitors the ethernet interface to see if a network is present. If it is it runs ifup to bring the interface up, and if the connection goes away it brings the interface down. Set ONBOOT=no for the interface and run ifplugd at boot time to control it instead. To build ifplugd you need libdaemon by the same author. An alternative is netplug: http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/ >Same thing a little later when it tries to mount SMB shares from fstab. >Takes forever before it times out. I don't use SMB shares so I can't comment on that. Ron
