From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 21:19:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA28109 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 21:19:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from capr.caproffice.net (clarkead.packet.net [206.228.135.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA28101 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 21:19:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@clarkead.packet.net) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by capr.caproffice.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02606 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:19:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:19:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" X-Sender: marcus@capr.caproffice.net Reply-To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user ppp startup delay Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lately, ppp takes an unusually long time starting up when the system boots. I'm running it in auto and alias mode. I have FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE, and a static IP address. The loopback device and ethernet card are configured using ifconfig, then it's tun0's turn. It sits at the initial "written by" line for a while before completely starting ppp. I initialize the tunnel device from /etc/rc.conf with the following lines: network_interfaces="lo0 ed0 tun0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xffffff00" ifconfig_tun0= Then I use the /etc/start_if.tun0 file and make the call to ppp: ppp -auto -alias demand Any reason I should be getting a 30 second delay when trying to initialize ppp? Joe Clarke