Thank you all (this sub-thread and the other) for the quick answer! :) That really helped me.
Chris Bare wrote:
You can put "-t 5" in the dhcp options in /etc/conf.d/net. This sets the timeout for dhcp to 5 seconds (you can adjust accordingly).
However, I would love to see the gentoo network start scripts to be able to detect link, and skip an interface if no link is found. I think they may be working on that...
Take a look at ifplugd. There's an ebuild for it, but I think there's a newer version here:
http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~lennart/projects/ifplugd/
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