On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:57 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > What's the correct way to get the rc.d scripts to block until the > network interface is _fully_ ready to carry traffic? > > The problem I'm having is that the ifconfig of the interface completes > but the port hasn't reached "status: active" yet. So the stuff that > starts next (sendmail, ntpd) can't reach the network. Is there a way > to get startup to wait until the interface is active? >
I modify /etc/rc.d/netif and and insert a "sleep 15" after the ifconfig loop. It is an obnoxious problem. > I'm running FreeBSD 8.2/amd64. > > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0)> mem > 0xd6000000-0xd7ffffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci1 > miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0 > brgphy0: <BCM5709C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, > 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-maste > r, auto, auto-flow > bce0: Ethernet address: d4:be:d9:ac:a1:e9 > bce0: [ITHREAD] > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
