This sounds true. I added an nic card and an external dsl modem, and now have a
much longer boot. But the dsl provider is using PPPoE and that sets a dynamic
IP. This occurs from the startup folder, long after the NIC is started. Is the
same thing you describe happening at boot??

Thanks.On Wed, 24 May 2000 06:34:27 -0700, Russ Poffenberger wrote:
>A delay of this amount during bootup sounds very much like you have a NIC card
>installed that is waiting for a network server to give it an IP address.
>
>Go to "Control Panel -> Network". In the list, see if TCP/IP is bound to
>your NIC card. If so, and you have no need for it (like internet connection
>sharing), then just delete that binding. If you do need it, then in the
>TCP/IP properties for that binding, make sure you assign a static address,
>do not have it find one, this is what takes the time, it is waiting for
>a non-existent DHCP server to respond.
>
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