Jeremy, A good proposal to improve start-up robustness. If I may suggest, waitnetwork_ip should include a short list of alternate IP's in the event of a local network outage, or DOS, etc. Something like: waitnetwork_ip="IP1 IP2 IP3"
Having multiple target IP's will improve the likelihood of timely booting when silly/nasty things happen on the wider network. Good idea to have incorporated into the base system. Andrew, I agree that the problems should be corrected at the source; and my preference is to fail properly (b) so that other mitigation may occur. Done in parallel, would eventually provide a belts and braces start-up: wait for the network, and fail properly for network dependent processes. (I can't speak to desktops that resume from a suspend when the network has changed state.) Regards, Phil _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
