Blocking until the network is ready at boot?

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:37 AM
> To: kpneal at pobox.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Blocking until the network is ready at boot?
> 
> kpneal at pobox.com writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:09:00AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >> kpneal at pobox.com writes:
> >>
> >> > What's the correct way to get the rc.d scripts to block until the
> >> > network interface is _fully_ ready to carry traffic?
> >>
> >> According to rc.conf(5), netwait_enable is what you want.
> >
> > Does this require 9.x? I can't find any reference to that setting in
> > any of my 8.2 rc.d scripts.
> 
> It's only been around on 8.x for about 6 months, so I guess you don't have it.
You
> can just install it in /etc/rc.d and add it as a requirement for
mountcritremote.

We (VICOR) liked it (netwait) so much, we back-ported it as a package... and now
make it available to the public (as of today -- looks like you folks could use
it!)

NOTE: The package automatically enables itself as a requirement for
mountcritremote (pkg_add, add "netwait_enable=YES" to rc.conf(5) and reboot;
that's it).

Download here:
http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/netwait-1.2.2.2p1.tbz

-- 
Cheers,
Devin

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