misc/147239: network problem with system start

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Andreas Schwarz
<Andreas.Schwarz at schwarzes.net> wrote:
>
> The ntpdate rc script requires NETWORKING. The question is,
> why is NETWORKING provided when NETWORKING is not possible?
>
> Al possible workaround is to add a "sleep 5" (depends on NIC) to
> "/etc/rc.d/NETWORKING" (which provides NETWORKING).

That's a hack at best as not all links are usable after 5 seconds.
-Garrett