Re: delay npf/npfd service start at boot

[Paolo Vincenzo Olivo <paolovincenzo94%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Leonardo Taccari wrote:

It did! thank you, even more for faving replied so quickly. NPF now waits 
for wpa_supplicant to connect and dhdpcd 
to assign an adress to the interface, npfd starts normally as expected.

I didn't even know about ifaddrs() until this very moment

Best regards,
Paolo


> Hello Paolo,
>
> Paolo Vincenzo Olivo writes:
> > [...]
> > I think npf is enabled over a wireless interface, it
> > doesn't wait for wpa_supplicant to establish a working connection, thus
> > failing to
> > apply npf.conf, and retunrning:
> >
> > /etc/npf.conf#$line#$column: no address matched for interface $if near ')'
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > How can I properly address this problem? (e.g. an idea could be writing a sleep script)
> >
> > [...]
>
> If you are using inet4/inet6 I think that using ifaddrs instead will do
> the trick (if it is a similar case reported in PR bin/53512).