OT sendmail delay

[bryan at coxagri.com]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Bryan Hepworth wrote:
>   
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I know this is off-topic seeing as how it's about sendmail but I was
>> hoping someone could help out.
>>
>> I have a machine with two ethernet cards in - previously these sat on
>> two different networks to take email from inside and deliver it to the
>> smarthost externally. Now that the network has been changed to 192.168
>> arrangement we don't need both ethernet connections, but I have noticed
>> a distinct delay on the other ethernet card to get a connection,
>> sometimes over a minute.
>>     
>
> What is the second ethernet card connected to?
>
> I assume that you havn't connected both network cards
> to the same network (this will give an answer to your problems).
>
> What is the output of ifconfig?
>
> Mogens
>
>   

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:18:F1:71:75  
          inet addr:93.1.1.208  Bcast:93.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fef1:7175/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1613 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
          TX packets:1714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:184622 (180.2 KiB)  TX bytes:1764140 (1.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xb000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:18:F3:0E:75  
          inet addr:192.168.2.4  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fef3:e75/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:920142 (898.5 KiB)  TX bytes:251040 (245.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:2575772 (2.4 MiB)  TX bytes:2575772 (2.4 MiB)