Fw: disable of eth0 at boot time

[Derek Broughton]

René wrote:

> i thought myself too, 
> that with outcommenting i had disabled everything, and it is good that you
> point out exactly that. still, i cannot see WHAT to outcomment, the
> default interfaces file looks like. i did outcomment "iface eth0 inet
> dhcp" with my first try. what i truly have to do next (and why)?
> 
...
> # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
> # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
> mapping hotplug
> script grep
> map eth0

This part will _still_ bring your interface up on boot - just a little later
than "auto eth0" would.

If you want it to come up only when an actual network connection is
detected, comment out that section and install ifplugd.
-- 
derek