On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Kumorek, Jim wrote:
> I'm having an odd problem with diald that I haven't been able to figure
> out. I've set up diald, but it doesn't recognize any network requests
> if the 10baseT ethernet card interface is initially active. If I do a
> "ifconfig eth0 down", diald will then work perfectly. If, after diald
> starts functioning correctly, I bring eth0 back up, diald continues to
> be perfectly happy.
Sounds like one of your initialization scripts sets the default route to
eth0. Probably only the local network route should be to eth0, the
default route should be set up by diald.
> Something that may or may not be related: when this machine boots, when
> it gets to the point of starting sendmail, it pauses for a very long
> time (like several minutes) before it continues with the boot process.
> I've compared as many configuration files as I'm familiar with (that's
> not saying a whole lot! :-) with a Linux box that is working fine, but I
> can't find any differences.
It might be trying to resolve some machine name or IP number. Things will
go much smoother if you set up named on your box. I believe there was an
article in Linux Gazette that can help you.
Ed
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