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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:25:00 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213270 - head/etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20100929192500.GC96399@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <201009291308.o8TD8NHo009975@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201009291308.o8TD8NHo009975@svn.freebsd.org>

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* Ed Maste (emaste@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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