Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:14:24 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0 regression: wired network slow to initialise ? Message-ID: <hi7ll2$9o4$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <201001080840.29741.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <hi6ths$luq$1@ger.gmane.org> <201001080840.29741.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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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