How to set up static IP in 12.04 and avoid these start-up delays?

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:23:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Before you follow Marius' debug suggestion (which is good), I'd
>> correct the "broadcast" line "/etc/network/interfaces" (or delete it
>> and the "network" line), comment out the eth1-related lines, and check
>> whether the pause in your boot sequence's still there. If it still is,
>> add debug lines to all the "/etc/network/ifup.d/" scripts and...
>
> OK.
>
> But what's wrong with the broadcast and network lines?

I'd pointed out in an earlier post that the broadcast line is
incorrect and that these two lines aren't necessary because they're
calculated from the ip address and the netmask. It doesn't hurt to
have them but they're not needed and not having them means that there
are fewer things that can be set up incorrectly.