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lagagnon

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Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

First of all I want to say a big thanks to the Arch developers. I am new here and really enjoying the distro. Great work guys.

One question: during the Arch boot process (amazingly fast compared to other I might add...) I get about a 5 second delay at:

::Starting Network               [BUSY]

And then it begins to boot into my login screen. The network otherwise works fine. I wonder whether this delay is normal or whether I can optimize my eth0 settings?

My relevant rc.conf config:

HOSTNAME="scorpion"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="dhcp"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

My /etc/resolv.conf file:

domain uniserve.com
nameserver 192.168.0.2

ifconfig:

eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:A6:89:A8:F5
          inet addr:192.168.0.122  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fe89:a8f5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5626 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1849 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3040845 (2.8 Mb)  TX bytes:274216 (267.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:18

Any suggestions or comments greatly appreciated.

Last edited by lagagnon (2009-12-13 13:53:49)

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graysky

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

Seems normal with DHCP.  If you want it to fly by, consider a static IP config described on the wiki.

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karol

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

You can background it.

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

You can background it.

As long as he doesn't have something like ntpd or openntpd, samba, nfs, apache2, etc. that depend on the network being up though, no?

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karol

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

@graysky
Of course :-)

Mardoct

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

If you just put a "@" before network in rc.conf's daemons array, it gets backgrounded so the system continues to boot up before the network is up and running. I do this, and shave off about 3 seconds of boot time, and everything works by the time I'm into the WM. Assuming you don't run any daemons that require the network to be active, it shouldn't cause any problems.

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

You can background it.

As long as he doesn't have something like ntpd or openntpd, samba, nfs, apache2, etc. that depend on the network being up though, no?

At least ntpd can be tricked to work (if you don't use .pool servers) even if you background network (or wicd or anything else you may use to manage your network connections). I can't comment about samba, nfs and apache2 because I don't use them.

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lagagnon

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

If you just put a "@" before network in rc.conf's daemons array, it gets backgrounded so the system continues to boot up before the network is up and running.

Excellent! I had no idea about that feature. Works a treat!

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Gen2ly

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

I notice both dhcpcd and dhclient both do this.  I'm guessing there is some type of authentification process that makes it take this amount of time.  I've used udhcp before though (a lightweight minimalistic dhcp client) and it only takes about a second though, hmm.

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-12-13 18:41:31)

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uwinkelvos

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Re: Slight delay on boot at "Starting Network" [Solved]

if you dont need dhcp, setup a static IP as suggested. Some routers simply have crappy dhcp servers.