Slow boot for unconnected LAN

[Konstantin Svist]

Tim wrote:
> 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.
>   

I was wondering about this, too.
In gentoo, it goes to the background.. is that because they use some 
other loader than sysvinit?