Slow boot for unconnected LAN

[Tim]

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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