Nate Bargmann wrote: > This has bugged me on and off most of this year since for some reason > that I can't find, the shorewall/shorewall6 startup scripts have a pause > of about a minute before the system start/shutdown can continue. Right > now this affects both my desktop and laptop running Sid. I use shorewall on many systems and I do not experience any long delays at startup or shutdown. Therefore this problem seems specific to the configuration of your system. > My desktop's network connection is a wired Ethernet that is managed by > the ifup/ifdown scripts. My laptop's wireless and wired interfaces > are managed by WiCD. Same here. I assume you have something like this in your /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If you change that to this does it improve things? auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp I have notice that when used with nis/yp the above avoids an nis startup delay. Bob
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