> This is actually a Bustech Netshuttle, and other Linux > machines are up and > running on it without incident. In other words the > Netshuttle was already > initialized.
Yes, but each subchannel interface also has some housekeeping to do when it goes active. That's my guess as to where something is taking a bit longer than expected. You don't say whether this is following a VM IPL -- I'm guessing that might be the case -- and if so, and there are lots of other machines initializing interfaces at the same time, it could certainly cause behavior like this. I've had a couple of real 3172s in the past that had to be coddled a bit after an IPL due to this sort of problem. Either that, or they just really like my company at 3 am...8-) -- db
