boot takes forever when off the network

[ogross74]

Hi there, I had installed my Fedora Core (Laptop) in my office, and whenever I restart it off the network it takes it about 15 minutes to finish.
Any ideas?

TIA Oren

[mugs]

I am not an expert, but I think that it is taking a long time because it is looking for that network connection and not finding it. 15 minutes seems way too long to me, I know if I am not connected and I leave my eth0 to start at boot, it takes an extra few minutes looking before it gives up. I guess you could try setting it not to start at boot for those times and see if it makes a difference.

[ilja]

You could turn off all the network-things (as dhclient, sendmail, etc.) in system-config-services. But when you'll have network you'll have to turn some of them on manually and that will take time.

[crackers]

You can turn off "activate on boot" for the interface. You will have to manually turn it on when you want to use it, though. Most services that rely on networking being enabled either won't start, or will start and just sit there dumb as a rock until the network comes up.

dhclient is automatically started by the interface "up" scripts, by the way.

[y_gross]

Anyone has a recommendedlist of services to turn off for stand-alone? maybe an existing script?
Oren