Slow Boot

[Derek Broughton]

James Gray wrote:

>> You don't have to start it manually.  Install ifplugd, and it will bring
>> it up whenever it detects a connection.
> 
> Very good point Derek.  I'd totally forgotten about ifplugd :P  I do most
> of my network config from the command line and for very rare occasions my
> lappy is "hard-wired" into a network[1], it just doesn't seem worth the
> RAM and CPU cycles for me to run yet another daemon when "sudo ifup eth1"
> does everything I need.
> 
> Would make an ideal solution for the OP though :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> [1] Everywhere I go these days I can use my wifi interface :)

I confess I have what seems like a ridiculous number of daemons running, so
I understand your point.  In my case, where I almost always connect to
either my home wifi or my work wired-lan, I tried other options, and found
that ifplugd was the simplest solution to always bring up one or the other.

otoh, my last laptop, with a pcmcia ethernet interface, never worked well
with ifplugd, so it may not always be a solution.
-- 
derek