after fixed ip networking boot became slow

[Buz Davis]

Please excuse me if this is a repeat.  I sent the original
last night but from yahoo email (under which I am not registered)
and it never appeared so I figure it got filtered somehow.


I have just "finished" installing a small home network
consisting of three machines:  a redhat 6.2 box, a
redhat 9 box, and a windows box.  These are connected
to a belkin router, which in turn is connected to my
dsl modem.

I managed to get everything going using dhcp (to which
the router defaulted) but couldn't figure how to
create
a robust exports file for nfs when the ip addresses
might change.  So I just converted everything to a
fixed ip network.  I am happy to say things still
work, and I can still access the printer attached to
the rh9 box.  (I had trouble with this earlier, due to
changing
the hostname).

(I was surprised but pleased to see that after
converting to a fixed ip network the 'localhost' name
in the logon prompt was replaced from the /etc/hosts
file).

The one thing that is different is that now on booting
it takes about two minutes for sendmail to come up,
and about one minute for sm-client to come up.  They
both come up OK, but it takes much longer than before
with dhcp (and also before networking at all).  Back
then these came up without delay.  Can anyone suggest
why they are now slow and what I might do to speed
them ?  Thanks.

Buz Davis

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