Re: kern/51531: Recent networking regression affecting installs

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51531; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/51531: Recent networking regression affecting installs
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:15:09 +0000

 On 23/11/2016 08:33, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 > Roy Marples wrote:
 >>>> Do you know if the new ifconfig command did in fact wait for around
 >>>> 15 seconds before running ping?
 > 
 > It waits for about 5 seconds, not 15.  Here's the relevant part
 > of the timestamped log (the big numbers are seconds since the epoch):
 
 OK.
 That tells me that the address is DETACHED during this time and not
 TENTATIVE.
 In other words, the interface thinks there is no carrier.
 
 Could you try changing my commit locally from -w 15 -W 5 to -w 15 -W 15
 and see if that helps at all?
 
 If not, do other numbers help? -w 120 -W 120 is insane, but it's worth
 trying to see if my theory is right.
 
 If so, we just have to increase the default numbers, and maybe in
 rc.conf as well OR look into why the interface is taking more than 5
 seconds to gain a carrier as sk0 is cabled yes?
 
 Roy