Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

From: Cheryl Homiak (chomiak_at_charter.net)
Date: 06/13/04

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    Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere so
    that ethernet card coming up will be conditional. right now, if I boot on
    either my laptop or desktop with "auto" set for eth0 and the cable modem
    isn't connected to the ethernet card, the whole boot hangs for quite a
    while. i noticed when experimenting with Fedora recently that there was
    only a brief pause if the cable modem wasn't plugged in, then the boot
    continued almost immediately. Not trying to compare distros; it's just
    that having this happen with Fedora made me wonder if it was possible to
    set something up in debian. I don't always know when I am going to boot on
    a computer without the modem connected and it seems anyway that there
    could be a better solution than changing /etc/network/interfaces whenever
    i think I might be doing this.
    Thanks. 

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