From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 17:00:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06766 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from top.worldcontrol.com (mg130-191.ricochet.net [204.179.130.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA06716 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@worldcontrol.com) From: brian@worldcontrol.com Received: (qmail 1781 invoked by uid 100); 26 Sep 1998 23:53:13 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:53:12 -0700 To: Steve Price , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp slow to start? Message-ID: <19980926165312.A1769@top.worldcontrol.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Price on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 03:15:19PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 0, Steve Price wrote: > Anyone know why it sometimes takes user-mode PPP in the neighborhood > of a couple of minutes to startup? As root I type 'ppp' and I get the > 'Working in interactive mode' message almost immediately and then it > just sits there for what seems like a very long time. It finally times > out and works but I'd really like to get rid of the delay if I could. If you are running a named server it's 'Cuz user-mode PPP does some sort of operation on startup that accesses your named daemon. Since the PPP session isn't up, named hangs and eventually times out. After the timeout PPP continues on its way. -- Brian Litzinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message