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allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

backgrounding network startup at boot

I just installed arch on my laptop and I have a question pertaining to how the network interfaces are started at bootup. I have two ethernet interfaces (wireless and wired) and at least one of them will always fail at startup and I have to wait 30 or so seconds for it to figure out there is no network to connect to. Can this process be backgrounded so I don't have the delay during startup? I don't have any daemons that rely on the network so it won't break anything and one of the interfaces failing is expected behavior so I don't need notification.

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: backgrounding network startup at boot

Yeah - background it as described in rc.conf.

Dusty

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Re: backgrounding network startup at boot

more precisely, change

DAEMONS = (......network.......)

to

DAEMONS = (.......@network........)

I think

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allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Re: backgrounding network startup at boot

Thanks for the help, didn't realize it was that simple. I probably deleted the comments where it described that.  :oops:

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: backgrounding network startup at boot

be careful which daemons you background. You can't do it to ones that require a previous to be fully loaded...requires common sense.