method to test for link before dhclient at boot?

[James Long]

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.