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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:53:12 -0700
From:      brian@worldcontrol.com
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp slow to start?
Message-ID:  <19980926165312.A1769@top.worldcontrol.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9809261512230.23616-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>; from Steve Price on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 03:15:19PM -0500
References:  <Pine.OSF.4.02.9809261512230.23616-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On  0, Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> 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 <brian@litzinger.com>

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