Make sure the machine names are in the /etc/hosts file (it may be trying to do a name lookup, how fast is nslookup for the machines).
HTH, Brandon On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: > I have set up a little test network if I try and telnet or ftp into my > other Linux machine it takes like 2 minutes to get the login screen after > it establishes an ftp or telnet session. After I get logged in it is > fast. Is there something I can do to speed up the log in time. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null