If telnet takes a while to come up it is normally trying to do a reverse
name lookup of the source IP address so that it can say "last logged in fro=
m
xxxx".

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>From: "Bart Hirst" <bhirst@answerthink.com>
>To: <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
>Subject: PowerBSDrouter
>Date: Sat, Oct 21, 2000, 3:24 am
>

>Hi everybody,
>
>First of all I want to thank everyone who contributes to this extremely
>knowledgeable mailing list.  With all the great material here and on the
>netbsd.org web site, I=92ve managed to gain control of my OF (more by
>hi-jacking than anything else ;) explore the bowels of NVRAM, hack system
>disk, install NetBSD, config my network and setup ipf & ipnat.  This is al=
l
>in an effort to finally replace my IPNR OS9 Firewall with an elegant BSD
>kernel, and I've succeeded! (Now here=92s some fun, how else could I quench
>that little devil inside me that keeps telling the sane voice =91we=92ll be in
>bed in 15 mins, don=92t worry about it=92 till 3am)
>
>So the system I put together was %100 free.  That=92s the best part.  It=92s a
>powercenter 150 (remember those?  It looks like a crappy desktop pc, but
>secretly hides an ADB & SCSI on the back) I call it my PowerBSDrouter.
>Built in mc0 plus the 3com 3c590b PCI ex0 I put in last week, very nice.
>
>Version info:  NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Aug 30 21:01:19 JST 200=
0
>
>The console is a performa475 pizza box running MicroPhone (wow, flashback)
>connected with a serial cable to the BSD box.  Printer port on the 475 to
>the modem port of the PowerCenter150.  Pretty standard serial connection,
>with the baud rate turned up.  Works like a charm.  I spent a week trying =
to
>get the mysterious, much touted and beautificus 640x480 60hz display OF
>patch to work, but with no avail.  (Don=92t know why I bothered, I guess I=92m
>just one of those people that can be routed in on a problem, no matter how
>dim-witted until the brick wall finally wins.)
>
>So if you read through this much of my babble I=92m impressed, here=92s the
>reason / problem I wrote this email to discuss:
>
>I=92m having major delays in simple cmd=92s on my box.
>
>1) telnet prompts can take up to 5 mins to come around.
>2) Su takes several minutes to prompt for a password
>3) Yesterday I couldn=92t get a prompt at all, even on the serial console
>4) =91who=92 can take minutes to generate a logged on list
>5) ipnat maps seem to not flush after a =96C =96F, very strange behavior.  Lot=
s
>of ioctl(SIOCADNAT): File exists messages in unpredictable patterns.
>6) cat <file> | more hangs for several minutes sometimes
>
>NOTE : ipf & ipnat seem to run flawlessly while these =91hangs=92 occur.  So I
>know the ipf engine is running fine.
>
>I know all of this is very vague, and it=92s probably a common or simple
>problem I=92m unaware of being a BSD newbie.  Thanks for reading if you did,
>and any suggestions for troubleshooting much appreciated!
>
>Thanks everybody!!
>
>Bart Hirst
>