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Subject: Re: long delay in boot process
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 14:54:46 GMT
Organization: Turicum Communications
From: BORKI@zug.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter)
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>> Ulf Schmidt
>> 20.08.1996


US> 1. after the interface de0 is defined and configured w/ its IP-paramameters
US>     delay for 2min. after displaying 'ether 00:dd:xxxx'
US> 2. after the message: 'starting routed.'
US> 
US> I was able to fix this once, but I can't figure out how I did it. What
US> could cause a delay at these points? 

I had the same problem till I changed all the ${hostname} and 'localhost'
entries in /etc/sysconfig to my real IP addresses.


Reto