8.0 regression: wired network slow to initialise ?

[martinko]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 08 January 2010 4:23:09 am martinko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> $ grep sk0 /etc/rc.conf.local
>> ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
>>
>> When booting up or netif restart:
>>
>> Starting Network: lo0 sk0.
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 16384
>>           options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>>           inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>>           inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>           inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>> sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>>           options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>>           ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
>>           media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>>           status: no carrier
>>                   ^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Please note that on older versions of FreeBSD it printed 'status:
>> active' and also IP address obtained via DHCP.  The same now happens
>> whether booting up or restarting via /etc/rc.d/netif and is a bit
>> confusing at best.  Other network services starting on boot seem to be
>> not affected at least.
>
> SYNCDHCP would probably restore the old behavior but make your boot take
> longer.
>

Please note that it displays "status: no carrier".  Is this really 
dependent on DHCP ?  Even if I `netif stop` network interface status is 
active until I plug out network cable (only then it's no carrier).