After switching to an SSD as my boot device various services that required a working network connection fail and/or have long pauses in startup. In order to give if_XXX time to go from down to up (/etc/netstart forces it down at start of run) before such services are started netwait_if="XXX" is required. For example ntpdate, NIS and nfs mounts fail in the following /etc/rc.conf and /etc/fstab is the netwait lines are missing from missing from /etc/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf: hostname="neomarx" ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.11.40 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.11.1" static_routes="specmed" route_specmed="-net 10.31.10.0/24 192.168.11.30" sshd_enable="YES" ntpdate_enable="YES" # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable dumpdev="AUTO" zfs_enable="YES" netwait_enable="YES" netwait_if="re0" nisdomainname="office" nis_client_enable="YES" rpc_lockd_enable="YES" rpc_statd_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" tomcat9_enable="YES" apache24_enable="YES" mysql_enable="YES" vboxnet_enable="YES" devfs_system_ruleset="system" devd_enable="YES" /etc/fstab: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ada0p3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ada1p3 none swap sw 0 0 server:/data/home /usr/home nfs rw 0 0 server:/usr/local/com /usr/local/com nfs rw 0 0 linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 linsysfs /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /compat/linux/dev/shm tmpfs rw,mode=1777 0 0 fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0