From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 07:59:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BEE10656A4 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:59:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6658FC19 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CXiw1f0061YDfWL55XmXTt; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:46:31 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CXmW1f0053LrwQ23gXmWCu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:46:31 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC68A9B418; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:46:28 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20100929074628.GA83194@icarus.home.lan> References: <20100925000435.GA62501@sandvine.com> <4CA15FC8.8010106@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA15FC8.8010106@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wait for carrier in /etc/rc.d/defaultroute X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:59:46 -0000 On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:23:52PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 9/24/2010 5:04 PM, Ed Maste wrote: > >/etc/rc.d/defaultroute currently bails immediately if all interfaces > >set to use DHCP have no carrier. This caused grief at work as it takes > >some time for link to be established, and defaultroute ran before this > >happened. The rest of rc.d/ ran then before DHCP could assign an > >address and route. > > > >The attached patch introduces a defaultroute_carrier_delay variable > >and a change to /etc/rc.d/defaultroute to wait that long before bailing > >out if there are no interfaces with carrier. With the default settings > >defaultroute will wait for five seconds to see if any interface gets > >carrier. The original 30 second wait for a default route to appear is > >unchanged. > > > >Any comments? I'll commit it sometime next week if there's no concern. > > There was a more generic solution floating around fairly recently, > from Jeremy Chadwick. The thread on this list starts back in april, > but the latest version of the script appeared in june, so you might > want to start there. I used versions of that script for most of this > calendar year, and offered to commit it if the rc.conf.5 update was > written. > > Jeremy, if you've done that bit and I lost track, apologies, my > FreeBSD time has been super limited lately, but it's on the upswing > at the moment, so maybe you could update us? Ack, I forgot all about this (and despite recommending the script to someone on the lists a couple weeks ago)! The script Doug's referring to is available below, and should be placed into /usr/local/etc/rc.d (be sure to chmod 755/555 it as well): http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/netwait Example usage in /etc/rc.conf: netwait_enable="yes" netwait_ip="4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2" netwait_if="em0" netwait_timeout="15" This version lacks some of Doug's recommended changes (some minor syntax changes and a more realtime indicator of what's going on by printing dots/periods) -- I'll dig up Doug's Email from a while back and make some time to implement his recommendations. The idea in the long-run is to get this script committed to the base system (e.g. /etc/rc.d), have rc.conf(5) updated to mention the variables, in addition to src/etc/defaults/rc.conf. Furthermore, I should probably file a PR for all of this... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |