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Date:      Sun, 11 May 2014 12:23:16 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-CURRENT@freebsd.org Current" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ordering for network-sensitive rc scripts
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On 11 May 2014 12:01, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2014, at 09:30, Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Can't we add a devd hook to do that?
>
> I tried doing this, but it turns out that wlan devices don't appear to se=
nd devd LINK_UP / LINK_DOWN events.  It would be nice to have a clean solut=
ion to this.  By default, using the stock rc scripts, my router is currentl=
y not able to forward packets from the WiFi until I've logged into it and m=
anually run 'service pf restart', which is a bit crazy.  I've hacked around=
 it by having a script run from rc.local that sleeps for 60 seconds and the=
n restarts a few things, but that's really, really ugly.
>
> On closer inspection, pf doesn't fail silently, it complains about a synt=
ax error in my config file because wlan0 is not a known interface.
>
> We therefore have an rc ordering problem if you want to use pf and WiFi a=
t the same time.  This problem was introduced some time between 9.2 and 10.=
0.

Is there a PR for this? It's the first I've heard of it.


-a



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