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In article <paul.713338619@alantec> paul@alantec.com (G. Paul Ziemba) writes:
>I'm using SunOS 4.1.2 and the (in)famous ppp-pl6. I have followed
>Karl's directions for setting up the routes and such.
>
>After I have fired up the PPP connection, I attempt to open a new
>window in SunView on the client machine (i.e., my machine at home).

If you still use SunView on your home machine, my sincerest condolences.

>It takes over a minute for the new window to appear! (it ought to
>appear in about 5 seconds or less).
>
>here's the routing table at the time, in case that's relevant:
>(wd8oml is the home machine, gw is the machine at work)
>
>2:paul@wd8oml% netstat -r
>Routing tables
>Destination          Gateway              Flags    Refcnt Use        Interface
>gw.alantec.com       wd8oml.alantec.com   UH       2      10512      ppp0
>localhost            localhost            UH       12     18162      lo0
>wd8oml.alantec.com   wd8oml.alantec.com   UH       2      22         le0
>default              gw.alantec.com       UG       0      4          ppp0
>3:paul@wd8oml% 
>
>What have I overlooked??

This would be an easier problem to debug if you were using OpenWindows or X11
and you'd told us what your DISPLAY variable was set to, as I think I could
answer that quite easily.  But I'll still have to believe you if you say you're
running SunView on the home machine.

In that case, the most obvious thing I can think of is to simply ifconfig the
not-in-use Ethernet interface down:

	ifconfig le0 down

I actually commented out the lines

	device-driver	lebuf		# ethernet buffer
	device-driver	le		# LANCE ethernet

in my kernel on my home SPARCstation-1+ ...

--
	- Greg Earle
	  Sun Microsystems, Los Angeles
	  JPL on-site Software Support Engineer
	  earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV, earle@Sun.COM

Greg Earle wrote:

   In that case, the most obvious thing I can think of is to simply ifconfig the
   not-in-use Ethernet interface down:

	   ifconfig le0 down

   I actually commented out the lines

	   device-driver	lebuf		# ethernet buffer
	   device-driver	le		# LANCE ethernet

   in my kernel on my home SPARCstation-1+ ...

If you do this, you may have trouble getting to your local host, i.e.
when you say "telnet `hostname`".  To avoid this problem, add the
following route at boot time:

    route add `hostname` localhost 0
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies                            +1 800 558 7827
1760 Zollinger Road, Columbus, Ohio 43221                      +1 614 451 1883

In response to my query, karl@MorningStar.Com (Karl Fox) writes:

>    route add `hostname` localhost 0

This was an effective solution. Many thanks to Karl and also to
Ross Porter (ross@turock.psych.upenn.edu) for this suggestion.

 ~!paul
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