From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 10 18:34:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06441 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:34:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06433 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id NAA04685; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:02:45 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611110232.NAA04685@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: syscons and mono VGA screens? In-Reply-To: <199611091055.LAA10906@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 9, 96 11:55:26 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:02:44 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > > (There's also an annoying delay when adding the default route, despite my > > adding '-n' to the 'route add' line in netstart. The machine has two > > ethernets, and resolves via a local nameserver, so I can only guess that > > -n is not having the desired effect.) > > -n does only have an effect on reverse lookups to translate addresses > into names when printing. You gotta explicit use numerical addresses > in your case -- how else should the names translate into addresses > otherwise? route -n add -interface 129.127.96.120 which takes no time at all once the system is up, causes a resolver-timeout-like delay when specified via defaultrouter="-interface 129.127.96.120" in /etc/sysconfig. > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[