[gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

[Richard Watson]

Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1 was being assigned to my wireless. My problem is that although "rc-update show" indicates all my interfaces are NOT being loaded other than net.lo at boot (which is what I want) my system keeps trying to start net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 in the " default" run level. Can anybody help? It's very frustrating waiting for these interfaces to try and connect before timing out.

I've always run my network connection on this basis as Gentoo is on my laptop and depending where I am will determine which interface I want to use.

Thanks, Richard