Hi there. is background_dhclient="YES" the best way to instruct freebsd to continue boot even if NIC's are failling to get ip via dhcp?

is the kernel stalling if the nics cant get dhcp?

or are you just prompt to continue

aaron: no. boot is taking longer due to NIC carrier failure (about extra 6min due to link transport waiting.

is the box not connected to a network?

I ask because I would just set it to static for the time being unless youre having netowkr issues as well

aaron: I want to understand best way to instruct bsd to continue boot, independently if NIC fails or not.

aaron: also exploring -b as network dhcp flag

so maybe synchronous waiting is the issue

I think in the rc.conf file you set netwait or sync_dhcp to disable

aaron: good stuff, I will read about it.