From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 17:31:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA0216A46C for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:31:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF70513C4D5 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:31:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l5SHV6AV013154; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:31:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4683F051.8040201@supsi.ch> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:30:57 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roberto Nunnari References: <4683ED4A.2040602@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <4683ED4A.2040602@supsi.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: net interface Link state changed to UP too late at boot time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:31:11 -0000 On one of the boxes the problem is solved.. it was a mistake of mine.. ..but on the other box (the em0 one that at the second retry will succed to mount the NFS FS) is there since I upgraded it from 5.3-RELEASE to 6.1-RELEASE Again.. any hints? Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hello list. > > Sorry to post again.. I just realized I was not subscribed > (now I am) and also forgot to tell the OS version: > > # uname -rms > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p15 i386 > > I have a couple of FreeBSD boxes here that when booting, > the network interface Link state is changed to UP too late. > > .. as the systems mounts at boot time a NFS FS, it hangs there > and after that I get the following kernel message: > > xl0: Link state changed to UP > or (depending on the box booting) > em0: Link state changed to UP > > on one box, after a timeout, at the next retry, > the FS will be mounted. on the second box, even after > the timeout, the FS will not be mounted as the interface > will not be configured at all. I'll have to go through > ifconfig manually and then every thing will be ok. > > > Any hints? > Is there a way to tune it by some sysctl? > > Thanks in advance and best regards >