Speed up DHCP during boot

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Sun Sep 19 09:09:23 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 02:04 -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > ifplugd is probably what you're looking for. If you set that up, and
> > disable the automatic configuration of the network interfaces, then
> > it'll take care of it for you, only enabling them if it detects a link.
> > waproamd does the same sort of thing for wireless interfaces.
> 
> Whoa, too cool.  Could we seed this for Hoary?

Network auto-configuration (including ifplugd) is mentioned on the
HoaryHedgehog page in the wiki, but we will probably go for the new
NetworkManager app instead of a combination of ifplugd/waproam, etc.

Thanks,

- Jeff

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