Run DHCP in background?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 19:45 +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote:

> On do, 2004-12-16 at 13:27 -0500, Jay Camp wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 12:57 -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:
> > > Has anybody thought about the possibility of running DHCP in the background when
> > > a user enables it at startup or uses ifup to bring it up?
> 
> This is done/will be done in hoary (as part of the boot speedup work):
> network interfaces will be configured in parallel as they are detected
> by hotplug. Same with soundcards, and other hardware that needs
> initializing before it works "right".
> 
It depends, some of this may or may not make it for hoary.  The problem
with asynchronous hardware detection is that you can no longer guarantee
hardware is available at any particular point in the boot process.

e.g. the mouse driver being loaded before X starts.

X.org doesn't like that, it doesn't like it so much it crashes your
machine *hard* to make the point.


I have some ideas to get around all the problems found so far, but I
suspect the right thing to do is to make them available as alternate
packages for hoary and then introduce them at the start of hoary+1.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant           The Mataró Sessions, Ubuntu Conference #2
scott at canonical.com            Mataró, Spain -- December 6th-17th 2004
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