Annoyance with recent parallelism in rc.d

[Mike Makonnen]

Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> Rev. 1.4 of rc.d/defaultroute.
> Ok, what should I do to have network daemons happy on startup?
> I am on a LAN so always have plugged-in cable.
> I do see on the console:
> msk0: link state changed to DOWN
> msk0: link state changed to UP
>                    got link
> msk0: link state changed to DOWN
> Starting Network: lo0 msk0.
> msk0: link state changed to UP
> msk0: link state changed to DOWN
> 
> AFAIK some NIC (or PHY-s?) require some sort of reset to handle some
> events.
> Should I live with synchronous_dhclient="YES" or something else?

This seems to be an issue with the driver for the network card. No 
special handling needs to take place in rc.d. So, yes, 
synchronous_dhclient=yes should be the appropriate work-around.

Cheers.
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