Run DHCP in background?

[Jay Camp]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 12:57 -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:
> Has anybody thought about the possibility of running DHCP in the background when
> a user enables it at startup or uses ifup to bring it up?  Currently, DHCP takes
> over the system and doesn't allow the bootup process or suspend/resume process
> (with mjg59's scripts) to continue without introducing a wait - which is
> extremely long if no network is found.  This would be good for Hoary as it
> would speed up these processes.

This could also be accomplished by using ifplugd, which monitors the
card for a link beat and if found, runs a certain script (ie, could run
DHCP).  This has the added bonuses of a) not blocking boot-up and b)
grabbing an IP when somebody sticks a network cable in.

I believe I read that ifplugd was on a list of possibilities to improve
networking in hoary.