ntpdate on FreeBSD 8.0

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:13:24AM -0600, ajtiM wrote:
> On Sunday 29 November 2009 21:38:04 Warren Block wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, ajtiM wrote:
> > > I have new installed FreeBSD 8.0 and in rc.conf I have:
> > >
> > > ntpdate_enable="YES"
> > > ntpdate_hosts="ntp1.cs.wisc.edu"
> > >
> > > When I boot computer I get a message there are no this host but when I
> > > run /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp1.cs.wisc.edu it works.
> > >
> > > I had the same in rc.conf on FreeBSD 7.2 and it works all the time. All
> > > settings on FreeBSD8.0 are the same as I had on 7.2.
> > 
> > Might you have a Realtek network card?
> > 
> > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
> > 
> 
> Yes, I have realtek card too but it is not active. DHCP is on sk0 and as I 
> wrote I never had problems with that. Maybe is different now?

Try using:
	ifconfig_sk0="SYNCDHCP" 

which makes sure sk0 comes back with an address from DHCP before
proceeding.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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