diff --git a/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/dhcp.json b/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/dhcp.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b3b48c42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/dhcp.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "dhcp": {
+	"defaults": { "dhcp-wait": "no" }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/mgmt.json b/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/mgmt.json
index 0fc3961f..9c193d06 100644
--- a/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/mgmt.json
+++ b/board/common/rootfs/etc/network/ifupdown2/policy.d/mgmt.json
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
-    "README": "Default mgmt interface prefix is 'eth'",
     "main": {
 	"module_globals": { "mgmt_intf_prefix": "mgmt" }
     }