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Upon reboot and login, I want to check to see if a remote computer (10.1.0.53) is listening for UDP on port 2222. I have tried adding the following line to ~/.bashrc (later, I tried ~/.profile, with the same result):

nc -z -u -v 10.1.0.53 2222

Upon reboot, I get the message:

nc: connect to 10.1.0.53 port 2222 (UDP) failed: Network is unreachable

If I immediately try source .bashrc at the prompt, it succeeds and outputs:

Connection to 10.1.0.53 2222 port [udp/*] succeeded!

How do I make netcat wait until the network is reachable? (10.1.0.53 is listening the entire time).

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Assuming you are using Raspbian, you can use raspi-config to delay boot until the network is up.

start raspi-config with the following:

sudo raspi-config

then select option 4 Wait for network at boot

then select Slow Wait for network connection before completing boot

click Ok

Then Finish

Finally reboot.

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    Is it possible to edit a file by hand instead of running raspi-config?
    – Jason Floyd
    Apr 11, 2018 at 23:42
  • yes, check the raspi-config source that is all it is doing. though raspi-config is easier and far less prone to error.
    – Steve Robillard
    Apr 11, 2018 at 23:44
  • What is this option doing under the hood?
    – ManuelSchneid3r
    Apr 12, 2018 at 14:19
  • Scratch user here, I can't seem to find the option on raspi-config - but if you click on the Raspberry Pi symbol on the taskbar (application menu) and then 'Preferences' -> 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' you can see the option 'wait for network' raspberrypi.org/blog/latest-raspbian-update
    – Dante
    Sep 23, 2018 at 15:13
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    @JasonFloyd The files raspi-config modifies are shown in this part of the code: github.com/RPi-Distro/raspi-config/blob/…. Alternatively, you can avoid modifying files manually or having to interact with raspi-config by running raspi-config nonint do_boot_wait 0
    – davidjb
    Apr 18, 2019 at 12:46

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