From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 07:16:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA17383 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 07:16:52 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA17375 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 07:16:43 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA02160; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 22:17:03 +0800 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 22:17:02 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L Subject: Really slow setting multicast routing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We had a building-wide power outage this morning and our floor's BPS failed to kick in. :( I had to run one partition of my FreeBSD box through fsck several times before it came clean, recovering a handful of files into /usr/local/lost+found. Is this normal, needing to fsck several times? Anyhow, I noticed something a little peculiar when rebooting the machines. In /etc/netstart, the ifconfigs for my Ethernet card and for the loopback interface come up nice a quickly, but then the machine hangs for well over two minutes at the "route add 244.0.0.0" line. It eventually comes up on its own. This is happening on both machines now. What is the purpose of this "multicast interface" with the 224.0.0.0 address and the 240.0.0.0 netmask? Could it be that a downed nameserver or gateway on our network was causing the delay? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org