From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 27 00:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21498 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21477 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08476; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:03:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA12457; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:03:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809270703.IAA12457@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Steve Price cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp slow to start? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 15:15:19 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:03:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi all, > > 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. > > Any ideas? http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html ? I think you may have found the question to the first answer :-/ > Thanks, Steve -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message