On 01-Aug-01 James Preston wrote: > This is almost certainly not a specific Debian problem, but my > potato installation always exhibits a strange pause in updating > routing information after dial-up. > > After successful handshake and allocation of an IP and and nameserver > entries (from the log), there is 10 - 20 second delay before route(1) > will show *any* entries: it just shows the "Destination Gateway ..." > header hangs/block. Very strange.
I've had the same problem with ppp, though in my case it's been taking longer, so I was waiting to see possible replies to your message (none that I've noticed so far). And, by the way, there's repeated little bursts of disk activity during this delay (every 3-4 seconds). Anyway, I've just solved it, and the same may work for you. For other reasons, I had occasion to look in /var/log/messages and, in the messages generated during dialup, noticed a whole slew of entries along the lines of Aug 5 13:26:40 tedistan pppd[24408]: rcvd [IPXCP ConfRej id=0x1 <node 0000d77d107b> <router proto 2>] Aug 5 13:26:40 tedistan pppd[24408]: rcvd [IPXCP ConfReq id=0x2 <network c24216c8> <router proto 2> <router name "ADMsnmp"> <complete>] Aug 5 13:26:40 tedistan pppd[24408]: sent [IPXCP ConfAck id=0x2 <network c24216c8> <router proto 2> <router name "ADMsnmp"> <complete>] Aug 5 13:26:43 tedistan pppd[24408]: sent [IPXCP ConfReq id=0x1 <network 0> <node 0000d77d107b> <router proto 2> <complete>] repeated many times during this delay period. Clearly something associated with IPXCP wasn't right. So I looked at 'man pppd' and searched for IPXCP. There's an option -ipx-protocol which turns off IPXCP. So I changed the contents of /etc/ppp/options from defaultroute to defaultroute -ipx-protocol and now, lo and behold, no delay! (and all those entries in /var/log/messages are not appearing any more). Good luck, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 05-Aug-01 Time: 17:29:27 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
