svn commit: r213270 - head/etc/rc.d

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Wed Sep 29 19:58:39 UTC 2010


* Ed Maste (emaste at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

>   /etc/rc.d/defaultroute currently bails immediately if all interfaces
>   set to use DHCP have no carrier.  This can cause grief as it may take
>   some time for link to be established, and defaultroute may terminate
>   before this happens.
>   
>   Introduce a defaultroute_carrier_delay variable and then wait that long
>   in defaultroute before bailing if no interfaces have carrier.  With the
>   default settings defaultroute will wait for five seconds for this, and
>   the original 30 second wait for a default route to appear is unchanged.
>   Note that there is in discussion an alternative approach to the broader
>   problem of waiting for DHCP-configured routes.  However, this change
>   addresses a real problem in the current defaultroute script.

Thanks!

Is MFC not planned?

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