*** Check /etc/hosts file on the server. Add the IPs/hostname of your
clients to this file or set-up a DNS server. It sounds like the delay may
be from host name resolving.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Terry Stanway wrote:
> I am working on a project that involves the use of terminals in a 2000 student
>secondary school. The core of our system includes a machine which functions as a
>bootp server and provides ldap services. There are several application servers, one
>of which handles an xdm chooser broadcast. Each of these machines is debian release
>2.4.18. Physically, the school network is supported by a gigabit backbone which
>connects several communication closets which are populated with BayStack 450F
>switches. Our gateway is a Cisco router (2700, if I remember correctly) which also
>provides dhcp service to our Windows and Mac stations. Our terminals are primarily
>486-33's with 16mb and 3com isa nic's.
>
> Our problem is that after a very prompt bootp response and a rapid X instantiation,
>everything really bogs down. It will often take more than 5 minutes for the chooser
>to appear and another 5 minutes to obtain a login window when a server is selected.
>The login process is equally slow. Once loaded, at least with ice or blackbox, the
>windows environment seems to function normally however a shell will be slow to bring
>up a prompt and, in a browser, while static pages are no problem, even a relatively
>low bandwidth page such as 'www.nytimes.com' causes extreme latency. I cannot find
>any hint of conflicts or timeouts in the log files and, while I have very limited
>experience in fiddling with networks, flood pings from one device to the next shows
>no packet loss. (Interestingly, a flood ping from any of our servers to the gateway
>gives 10% packet loss however I don't believe that our traffic should be touching the
>gateway.)
>
> If anyone has any suggestions regarding how I might tackle this problem, I would
>greatly appreciate your response as I am running out of ideas.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Terry
>
>
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