'Windows'-like networking in linux?

[dolbz]

Hiya,

I've recently set up Gentoo on my laptop and it seems that linux isnt well suited to portable computers when it comes to networking. In windows networking is simple as it automatically connects to a network using whatever network interface is available and all this can be controlled from the desktop. Linux however is more problematic as network services need to be started at boot time and if you are not connected to a network during boot up then none of your network services will start i.e. web servers, sshd, ftpd etc

What I am wondering is if there is any way to set up networking to work in a similar way to windows. i.e. I can choose either ethernet or wireless connections from the desktop and dont HAVE to be connected during boot?

Thanks in advance
Dolbz

[hardcore]

You can do this easily, add whatever services that you want to the nonetwork boot group. Like say for example you wanted sshd to start even though you haven't established a network connection at boot up. You'd do the following: