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Subject: Re: Blocking until the network is ready at boot?
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kpneal@pobox.com writes:

> What's the correct way to get the rc.d scripts to block until the
> network interface is _fully_ ready to carry traffic?

According to rc.conf(5), netwait_enable is what you want.