My system has a statically configured network that is fully functional. However, booting needs a long time due to "Waiting for network configuration" messsages.
What can be the cause for this?
I mitigated the impact by changing the delays in /etc/init/failsafe.conf , but I want to understand the problem.
The system had this behaviour after a fresh install (13.10) and kept it after update (14.04).
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet manual
iface eth1 inet manual
iface wlan0 inet manual
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
address 192.168.133.7
netmask 255.255.255.0
bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
bridge_fd 5
bridge_stp no
auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
post-up iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules
provider dsl-provider
In syslog I can see that network is started fast (including the bridge and ppp), but services depending on it are started later (e.g. dnsmasq)