I am experiencing long delays at boot when appliying a restrictive firewall policy. These are significant lines in /var/log/messages Dec 9 17:10:11 localhost kernel: 00:12.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled Dec 9 17:24:28 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded This is the policy in /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8 on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [7:1360] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [1:262] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [1:262] COMMIT # Completed on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8 on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [20:2032] :INPUT ACCEPT [20:2032] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [10:4652] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [10:4652] COMMIT # Completed on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8 on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003 *filter :ChainEth0 - [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT DROP [0:0] :ChainEth1 - [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] # Accept all by default -A ChainEth0 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j ChainEth0 -A ChainEth1 -s 195.223.196.0/26 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j ChainEth1 COMMIT # Completed on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003 What the system in those 14 minutes does? How can avoid this delay? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated Thanks Gianni Bragante
