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From: James Long <james_mapson@umpquanet.com>
To: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net>
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Subject: Re: method to test for link before dhclient at boot?
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:54:55PM -0500, Duane Winner wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering if anybody knows a technique for this problem:
> 
> I
> want the boot process to bypass DHCP so that it will boot faster

Have you tried putting

dhclient_flags="-1"

in /etc/rc.conf  ?

That should accomplish much of what you want, without a lot of futzing.