Hi Ronald, > Not here. I've got broadband (cable-modem) at around 275k average and its > pretty fast.
My connection is ADSL 512k, and it's fast, except for resolving the hostname... > Are you sure that you don't have a hostname conflict somewhere? I've seen that > slow systems way down. That's a good point! I must investigate this. > I would suppose that it would depend on -how- its brought down. How are you > doing it? I usually use (as root/su): > > ifdown eth0 > service network stop > > or > > service network restart > > "ifup" and "ifdown" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts here are links into > /sbin/ifdown and /sbin/ifup, so I'm assuming that they are run when I issue > any of the above commands. You saved my day! You're right, they are the ones run when the interfaces are brought down by the system. I was trying using: ifconfig eth0 down and my script (ifcfg-eth) was not sourced. ifdown executes it, and everything works as expected. Thanks for all the help, Tudor
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