How to have two active network interfaces on a laptop

[Leslie Jensen]

I'm wondering how I should handle my laptops network interfaces. I'm 
often forced to wait for bsdstats, ntpd and sshd to time out if I'm not 
connected. Even if I am connected on one interface the default gateway 
is assigned to the interface that is not connected.

I've found some information about profile.sh but it was unclear if this 
is still implemented in Freebsd.

How do I go about solving this?

Thanks

/Leslie