'Slow' ifup/ifdow

[Ulf Janitschke <u.janitschke@media-net.de>]

Hi,

i have a problem with the ifupdown-package. When I'am stopping/restarting my 
net-interfaces with /etc/init.d/networking, ifdown needs several minutes to do 
this work. Verbose output showed, that it needs about 30sec. for every step, 
even for the 'run-parts'-execution with empty(!) directories.

It was all the same with the versions 0.6.4-4 and 0.6.4-4.4

My system:
AMD K7 XP2000
EliteGroup K7S6A Mainbord
1 pci-nic (RTL8139)
(no onboard-nic)
Debian 3.0rl1 (STABLE and TESTING)

Does anybody know a solution to this realy annoying behavior?

Regards,
Ulf Janitschke