Why long pause at eth0 startup?

[Raw_recruit]

Every time I boot my system, I would like to know why it pauses at bringing up eth0 for almost exactly 1 minute.
I am running RedHat 7.1 and have a SMC 8432 BT EtherPower network card, which uses the tuplip driver. I use DHCP to get an ethernet address from my D-Link DI-701 Cable Router & Firewall.
It always comes up and works, but it bugs me that it takes so long to come up.
Anybody else see this kind of thing or know how I can speed up things?
Doug
drobson@chartertn.net

[ssadams]

I have the same nic in my gateway box and found it would delay using dhcp.Using static make it load instantly.Try giving your box a static ip and reserve that # on your router

[Keith M]

I believe your ifup in /etc/sysconfi/network-scripts is trying both pump and dhcpcd. This was a change in RH 7.0 and is still in 7.1. Figure out which one you actually use and then comment out the other in the script. You probably do dhcpcd and it is trying pump first, which takes a while to timeout, then it tries to do dhcpcd.