8.0 regression: wired network slow to initialise ?
martinko
gamato at users.sf.net
Fri Jan 8 16:14:54 UTC 2010
John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.
>
Thank you. It's just a few seconds difference for me. And I've found
out that one can either use SYNCDHCP or synchronous_dhclient="YES".
Cheers,
Martin
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