What kind of switch are you connecting to? The most cisco switches have spanning tree turned on by default and the switch will listen to the wire for a few to make sure that there is not a bridge loop before turning on the port. Syd > 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 - : 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
