ifconfig_*="DHCP" in absence of server

[Eugene Grosbein]

18.09.2020 20:05, Gleb Popov wrote:

>> Look for "background_dhclient" in the rc.conf manual page, it merely adds
>> "-b"
>> to dhclient flags.
>>
>>
> Thanks, this indeed improved things for the "netif" part of the problem.
> But it still waited 30s for "default route interface". I found the
> ${defaultroute_delay} variable in /etc/rc.d/defaultroute, which isn't
> documented, and set it to "1s" in /etc/rc.conf. This finally did the trick.
> 
> However, the networking on FreeBSD machines started to come up even longer.
> I suspect this is because dhclient gradually increases the interval between
> DHCP requests if it doesn't get an answer. I haven't found a way to
> circumvent this. Any suggestions are welcome.

Read dhclient.conf(5) manual page :-)