Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:50:13 -0700 (MST) From: Jake Ott <jott@frii.com> To: Jeff Yeo <j.yeo@attcanada.net> Cc: FBSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Slow routing table display Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903141148360.18913-100000@elara.frii.com> In-Reply-To: <000801be6c4e$55bab1a0$6426010a@homepc>
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Usually this is caused when it tries to resolve the names on all the interfaces. If you don't happen to be connected to the world when you run that, it times out on doing the DNS lookups. Make sure you are able to resolve ips when you try this. -Jake Sally sells C Shells by the seashore. On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Jeff Yeo wrote: > I'm running FBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE on a machine with two > Ethernet cards. One card is on a private net, the other I've > used Wide-DHCP to configure the interface to my ISP. > > I'm not running routed. I've compiled the kernel with option > IPFIREWALL, gateway is enabled, and the firewall is enabled > with the type set to "open". > > When I run > > #netstat -r > > I get the output header, but it takes several minutes for > any routing info to be displayed. Also, network traffic seems > to be generated before the route info comes up. > > I would have expected the routing tables to be calculated when > the interfaces are set up. Is this normal? What is the traffic for? > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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