From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 17:18:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E74916A421 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:18:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C134513C484 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l5SHIAlm012569 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:18:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4683ED4A.2040602@supsi.ch> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:18:02 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: net interface Link state changed to UP too late at boot time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:18:15 -0000 Hello list. Sorry to post again.. I just realized I was not subscribed (now I am) and also forgot to tell the OS version: # uname -rms FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p15 i386 I have a couple of FreeBSD boxes here that when booting, the network interface Link state is changed to UP too late. .. as the systems mounts at boot time a NFS FS, it hangs there and after that I get the following kernel message: xl0: Link state changed to UP or (depending on the box booting) em0: Link state changed to UP on one box, after a timeout, at the next retry, the FS will be mounted. on the second box, even after the timeout, the FS will not be mounted as the interface will not be configured at all. I'll have to go through ifconfig manually and then every thing will be ok. Any hints? Is there a way to tune it by some sysctl? Thanks in advance and best regards -- Robi