20 seconds to login at console?? (ds3100)

[Geoffrey A Prentice]

In article <1213 at psych.stanford.edu> connie at psych.UUCP (Constance Stillinger) writes:
>
>Much to my surprise, this nasty behavior stopped when my local
>mail gateway/nameserver/etc. came back up and started behaving
>itself again (after a recent thunderstorm).
>
>I didn't think this could be the source of login problems,
>especially at the console, but it seems like more than a
>coincindence.

The problem is definitely related  to the network activities.
It took me about 30 seconds just to get the login prompt at
the console when a new PC network was tested and attached to
the ethernet.

Any comments from DEC?

X. Shan
shan at sphunix.sph.jhu.edu