[CLUE-Tech] network issue

[Jeffery Cann]

Greetings,

I have a laptop which I plug into my LAN occassionally.  I do not start the 
network script /etc/init.d/network on boot of the laptop.  So, when I plug 
into my LAN, I'll run the network init script as root.  It seems to be many 
second delay until eth0 comes up.  Here's my ifconfig output, which looks 
correct:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:98:88:7F:C3
          inet addr:192.168.254.76  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:133
          TX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:42922 (41.9 Kb)  TX bytes:20738 (20.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300