Comment 16 for bug 9138

In Feisty, the DHCP timeout has been lowered to 30 seconds, which is a good balance between working with slow DHCP servers and not getting too annoyed.

Also, if you have a non-permanent internet connection, then you should just use network manager and use the Gnome network tool to disable the static configuration.

I consider this not a problem any more. Please shout out if I misunderstood and you still think that something needs to be changed. Thank you!