Thanks to Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. <wally.winzer@ChampUSA.COM> for his
response:
Apply the latest TCP, IP, and PPP patches for 2.5.1-x86.
I haven't had a chance to get the latest patches, I do have all of the
recommended patches installed as of March, 1998.
I solved the slow boot problem. My hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf looked
like:
host: dns files
Therefore it was trying to reach my DNS servers on the internet which were
not available at the time since the PPP connection was not up. Hence, I had
to wait for the DNS request to time out for both servers before it would
continue onto the next part of the bootup. When I did a sys-unconfig, the
dns entry of course, was removed from the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Then
when I tried to reconnect, I always put the dns back so I could get
somewhere on the internet. (Hmmm, I seem to remember someone telling me do
ONE change at a time when trouble shooting). Now I have reversed dns and
files for the host entry and the bootup works fine.
However, the netstat -r is still slow, but only when my PPP connection is
not up and running. Any suggestions on that part of the problem are still
more than welcome.
Thanks
Marco Greene
cmgreene@netcom.ca
My original post:
> SMs,
> I have Solaris 2.5.1 x86 running with freeware PPPD version 2.3.5.
>
> When I make a PPP connection, everything works great until I disconnect
and
> attempt to reconnect for a second time. The connection is established,
> however, no traffic seems to be going over the link. So I disconnected
and
> tried to connect for a third time, with similar results.
>
> My first thought was "routing" problem. I do a netstat -r and there
are
> three entries for default. (This netstat -r takes a LONG time to come up.
> Tried to remove the default entries since they are no longer valid. The
> first one removes OK; however, when trying to remove #2 and #3, they no
> longer exist.
>
> Now when I boot, it takes FOREVER to get past the multicast
> portion...(adding route for 224.0.0.0) and it then takes a long time to
get
> from Print Services Started to Volume Management Started message.
>
> When I do a sys-unconfig everything is fine until I run PPP again.
>
> Any suggestions would be welcomed. (Will summarize)
>
> Marco Greene
> cmgreene@netcom.ca
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