Jim Rees wrote: > I hate timeouts. Isn't there some way to wait until the interface is up > before attempting the mount? > I think mount waits till ipconfig is finished, however the actual link may not be up at that time(in cases of static ip's). Waiting for link to become UP can have a adverse side-effect of waiting forever in cases where cable isn't connected or n/w is not reachable.... retry is the only best option at this moment... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html