misc/147239: network problem with system start

[Garrett Cooper]

The following reply was made to PR misc/147239; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwarz <Andreas.Schwarz at schwarzes.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/147239: network problem with system start
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:47:27 -0700

 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