fast boot

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:10:55 +0530, Nandan Appajappa wrote:
>>
>>      The boot chart is showing the link eth0 receiving
>> the lease from your dhcp server.
>>
>>      The file /etc/network/interfaces may contain following
>> lines:
>>
>> auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>
>>      which has configuration to receive the lease for link eth0
>>      [ethernet]
>> from dhcp before your any gui components are loaded.
>>
>> Possible speedup can be achieved if these lines are commented.
>>
>> -Nandan
>
>
> Well, that's exactly it.  Out of the box, 12.04LTS (for me) doesn't
> acquire DHCP during boot:
>
> thufir at dur:~$
> thufir at dur:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> thufir at dur:~$
>
> so, what "magic" (or program) is doing the DHCP lease?  I see the up/down
> arrows when there's a connection and radio waves animation (hope that
> makes sense) when there's no "internet" connection.
>
> If that's commented out, then why is DHCP acquisition showing up in
> dmesg?  I don't get it.

Network Manager.