Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:49:48 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network startup with age Ethernet device Message-ID: <44a9jsmvs3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <wu7ob88naff.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> (Olivier Nicole's message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:33:24 %2B0700") References: <wu7ob88naff.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> writes: > I want to set-up a small server from an Asus P5L-MX motherboard. > > It has an onboard gigabit Ethrnet that works with the driver age. > > Problem is that at boot, I experience the interface to go up and down a > couple of times, and it is usually down when Apache try to start, so > Apache would not start (nor ntpd). > > I resolved to add a 5 seconds sleep in /etc/rc.d/netif but there may be > a more elegant way to solve that. Have you tried using netwait? I think that would involve putting enable_netwait in rc.conf, and configuring an address for it to check; probably the gateway would be good enough.
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