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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:57:02PM -0500, thully@xxxxxxxxx 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.
Currently, programs which start later in the boot process may depend on
having the network up and available (e.g., ntpdate).
In order to implement this, much of the init process must be reworked in
non-trivial ways. This work is planned for the release after Hoary.
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- mdz
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