Re: Version 4.4 IPL steps

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:55 PM 01/06/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Ever since we upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4 the final step of our IPL takes 
>15-20 minutes.  By final step I mean the LCD display on the processor 
>changes to the "B" indicator and then it's 15-20 minutes before I see a 
>signon screen.  under 4.3 that was never longer than about 2-3 minutes.

This is not consistent with my experiences.

>Does anyone know what might be going on after the SRC D900xxx changes to 
>"B" status ?

One wild guess, are you now automatically starting TCP in the startup 
job.  My experience is that any reasonably complicated implementation of 
TCP/IP will take longer to start than the IPL itself.

Al



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