Re: 2.5 minute delay when telnetting
stick an entry for each machine in /etc/hosts or \windows\hosts
whichever is appropriate.
eg
192.168.0.1 machine1
192.168.0.2 machine2
192.168.0.3 machine3
etc
William Benfold wrote:
>
> Forgive me for adding to the chaos, but I just subscribed yesterday, about
> 18 hours ago. When I checked my mail today, I had 512 messages, and new
> ones are appearing at a rate of one every couple of minutes. Someone please
> tell me this isn't normal! How do you people cope with this volume of
> traffic?
>
> Anyway...
>
> I have one Debian machine on a network with three other machines, all
> running win95/98. All the machines have Realtek 8029 PCI cards (NE2000
> clones). They are all connected with BNC cable.
>
> I have just managed to get the linux machine talking to the network, but I'm
> having a problem: whenever I telnet in from windoze, the connection opens,
> and then there's a big delay before the login prompt is displayed. In fact,
> I've timed this delay, and it is always more or less exactly 2 mins and 30
> secs. Once the login prompt is displayed, all is fine, any delays are
> unnoticably short. The network experiences only very light load, spending
> most of the time idle.
>
> It's fine when I telnet from the linux machine back onto itself, with
> "telnet localhost", so I guess it's something with the adapter?
>
> I think the same thing is happening with ftp, but my DOS ftp client seems to
> timeout after 60secs, but this may be just misconfiguration on my part.
>
> Using smbclient, I have transfered files (.deb) from win98 machines; there
> is no strange delay, and the transfer speed is about 500-750K/sec (10Mb/sec
> card on BNC cable remember).
>
> What could this be? Am I missing something in my startup scripts, or am I
> missing a parameter to ifconfig? I am using "ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.4 up".
> I have tried changing txqueuelen and turning on promiscuous mode (I'll admit
> I don't fully understand what they do, and I can't see how changing them
> would help, but I've been desperate for anything to try).
>
> Can anyone help me - two and a half minutes can seem awfully long!
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help,
>
> Will
>
> P.S. If you reply, please CC a copy to benfold@btinternet.com, as I might
> not see it in all this mess...
>
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