Re: NIS slows down login?

["Thomas Gebhardt" <gebhardt@HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE>]

Hi,

> Just out of curiosity, do you have any Win95 workstations on that network?
> If so, try running tcpdump on the linux box and dump the network interface
> to the screen.  Are you seeing "billions" of ARP requests from the Windows
> boxes to teh network broadcast address?  If so, this will throw NIS
> performance directly into the toilet!

Thanks, but that does'nt seem to be the reason of the flaw. I looked
at the output of tcpdump and my network is pretty calm. I don't expect
the network to be responsible for the problem since the machine is
running a local slave server. The yp client is bound to localhost.

Cheers, Thomas



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