On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:06:38 -0800, Aleksey Telyshev wrote:

=) Hello,
=) On my gentoo I have annoying problem - when I dont have cable eth0 starts
=) very long time. How can I reduse/eliminate this delay ?
=)
=) Thanks
=) Aleksey

If you're using dhcp to setup eth0

In /etc/conf.d/net
add "-t 10" to the line that starts with
dhcpcd_eth0=
uncomment the line if its commented

changes the dhcpcd timeout to ten seconds