In article <200206150409.3701@th00.opsion.fr> you wrote: > I don't intend to always connect this box to network > hub. How do I speed things up (by forcing NETDEV > WATHDOG stop probing?)? The probing is not your problem. Your problem is, that some programs actually want to use the network. Most likely things which slow you down are failed name resolutions. You can put the most used network names in /etc/hosts or use a caching and offline able proxy dns server like pdnsd. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
