How to speed up boot? (waiting for CAM and configuring WAN interfaces)
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These "issues" have plagued me absolutely forever on pfSense (at least pre 2.50, sometime by 2.0 at least) where the entire boot process takes approx a minute, and the single things that take up the most time are:
"Root mount waiting for: CAM" and "configuring WAN interfaces" ... both take about 5-10s each since the dawn of time. Is there any way to speed it up?
This happens both while virtualized and not. Only boot device at all available is the single drive for the install. WAN IP is also statically set up in pfsense. Why does this process never go any quicker? Are there wait times built into these things? Can we speed up any sort of waiting?
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You can speed up mounting root by changing the value of kern.cam.boot_delay in a custom loader value. But some systems require that delay to allow the root device to become active.
The WAN setup should be quick unless it's waiting for something. Usually that's DHCP but not if it's set static. Do you have it set to dhcpv6 with no v6 server present perhaps?
