Slow boot for unconnected LAN
Tim
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Wed Mar 5 18:03:26 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:26 -0800, tns1 wrote:
> FC8:
> There is a long timeout (> 10sec) when booting without a LAN connection.
> I am not sure if this only waiting for a dhcp response or if it would
> happen even if my IP was static.
>
> The behavior I'd like is to default to a specific static IP if I don't
> get a dynamic assignment in 3 secs or so. Can I get this without a
> kernel rebuild?
man dhclient.conf
See the "timeout" option. It looks like what you want.
> Also how do I set the default tabstops from 8 to 4 in vim? There is no
> .vimrc file.
Then create one with the options that you want, I think it's:
set tabstop=4
Might be useful: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=12
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