network startup at boot

[Andy Hocker]

Hi,

When I have my laptop at work I use ethernet and when I'm
at home I use my modem.  So when I boot up at home, it
of course fails when trying to bring up eth0.  The annoying
thing is that it tries for like two minutes before failing.

So how can I either (a) give myself the option of
starting/not starting eth0 at boot time, or (b) decrease
the timeout for eth0 to fail?

Muchas gracias,
Andy

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