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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