Hi Unicorn, what do you have in in your em0 config /etc/hostname.em0
are you in control of the KVM infrastructure ? can you get a vio nic instead of a intel 1000 nic it will generally perform better (according to my humble testing) Hope this helps Tom Smyth On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 07:41, Unicorn <unic...@disroot.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am encountering a network related issue in a KVM VPS that I am using > for OpenBSD. The way it appears to me is that /etc/netstart fails to > get a network connection using dhcp on its first attempt, but works on > the second attempt. > > While the system is booting, I see the following: > > em0: no link......... sleeping > > However, executing 'sh /etc/netstart' once the system is booted works: > > em0: 123.123.123.123 lease accepted from [...] > > The same happened during first installation of OpenBSD, I just told it > to use dhcp, it fails the first time, but works if I just do the same > thing for the same interface again. > > Attached is the full output of dmesg, I attached it as a plain text > file due to the line breaks hindering readability in email. > > I would appreciate any pointers as to what is happening and how I > could fix it or work around it. > > Thanks a lot in advance! -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.