On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I will try to fiddle with the service files and get it to work - but >> clearly at the moment it is non-ideal as this is a server and a remote >> reboot would currently leave it without a working network connection! >> >> > I have finally found a solution that works well for me - I simply did > "systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online" and rebooted - the dhcpd4 and > named services are now running correctly after the system boots - so the > dhcpd4 service does indeed get held until the network is properly up so I > now have a system working as it should and therefore this particular issue > is resolved. > > systemd-analyze shows a boot time of 8.7 seconds so there is no significant > delay by enabling NetworkManager-wait-online service. I mentioned your problems to the systemd guys, and they would like to know more. If you don't mind, could you post "lspci -vvv"? Cheers, Tom