This may sound like a stupid question, but why does it take about 40 seconds to regain network access after unplugging and plugging back the ethernet cable? I am running version 2.4.12 of the kernel and have a 3Com 3c59x ethernet card. I ran ping to the next router and was receiving steady replies; I then unplugged the cable and plugged it back in; ping received the first reply back in about 40 seconds. The machine is configured with a static IPv4 address, but I've seen the same behaviour with a DHCP configured machine and a different network card, so I figured it must be caused by the Linux kernel. Is there any way to reduce this 40 second delay to something acceptable, like 5 seconds or less? Nelson Patricio Oliveira Software Engineer, Engineering ExtendMedia Inc. 190, Liberty Street, Toronto, Ontario mailto:noliveira@extend.com Tel. 1-416-535-4222 (2316) Our story, http://extend.com/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
