Run DHCP in background?

[Martijn van de Streek]

On do, 2004-12-16 at 13:27 -0500, Jay Camp wrote:
> 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.

This is done/will be done in hoary (as part of the boot speedup work):
network interfaces will be configured in parallel as they are detected
by hotplug. Same with soundcards, and other hardware that needs
initializing before it works "right".
-- 
Martijn van de Streek <martijn at foodfight.org>
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