8.0 regression: wired network slow to initialise ?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 08 January 2010 4:23:09 am martinko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> $ grep sk0 /etc/rc.conf.local
> ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
> 
> When booting up or netif restart:
> 
> Starting Network: lo0 sk0.
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>          options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>          inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>          inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>          options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>          ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
>          media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>          status: no carrier
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Please note that on older versions of FreeBSD it printed 'status: 
> active' and also IP address obtained via DHCP.  The same now happens 
> whether booting up or restarting via /etc/rc.d/netif and is a bit 
> confusing at best.  Other network services starting on boot seem to be 
> not affected at least.

SYNCDHCP would probably restore the old behavior but make your boot take 
longer.

-- 
John Baldwin