Speeding up boot times

[Rick]

I've got my boot time down to about 35-45sec but it could be faster. My NIC keeps looking for an IP from a DHCP server. That's adding 10-15sec each bootup. I've gone into the properties in Network and disabled DHCP, but no go. I've tried removing the NIC entry under Network but windows keeps redetecting it. My DSL uses PPPoE so it has it's own Network entry. I even tried diabling the main NIC profile and leaving the one for my PPPoE in Device Manager but then the software that gets the IP address generates an error saying it can't load TAP (whatever that is).
Anyone have an idea on how I can get the NIC from looking for a DHCP server?
tks

Rick


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[cjolley]

Oddly enough, I was asking about that from swbell for my father just this evening.
His computer started taking 2 1/2 mins to start after they installed PPPoE.
Swbell said they had some tweaks that could be made.
I will be able to tell you more tomorow.
Chuck

[Rick]

Thanks Chuck. I'm actually thinking of hardcoding an address to that. When Windows can't find a DHCP server it seems to automatically assign the following address:
169.254.46.117
Subnet: 255.255.0.0
Wondering if hardcoding that address would prevent it from looking. I'll test it and post the results.

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[Rick]

Yep that did the trick. Chuck if you open up Network in the Control panel, then go down to the TCP/IP protocol that has the entry for the network card itself, mine is boxed in red
Click on it once and then properties. Go to the IP configuration tab and enter an IP address. Try the one I've got, anything that starts with 169. shouldn't affect your PPPoE IP address. Click ok twice and reboot. Hopefully you'll notice a difference, I sure did.

[Gurm]

Why bother having TCP/IP bound to that adapter at all, then?

- Gurm

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[Rick]

Gurm, for some reason if I unbind TCP from the main NIC entry the PPPoE adapter can't initilize itself. Get a message saying that it can't load TAP. Also tried removing the protocol for that adapter and the same thing happened. Hardcoding the address that Windows ends up assigning anyway is the neatest workaround that I've been able to come up with.

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[This message has been edited by Rick (edited 22 May 2000).]

[cjolley]

Thanks Rick,
I'll try that.
I got that TAP message about 50 times yesterday.

I am sooooo glad I got on to swbell befor they started that PPPoE crap.
My connection is straight tcp/ip and about 3 times a fast as his. But, we do live in different parts of town with different COs.

Thanks again,
chuck



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[Rick]

Chuck the problem is that they probably won't let you stay on straight TCP. My service was originally a DHCP server-assigned IP address. They slowly started rolling out the PPPoE. We weren't given a choice, if you didn't install the software you couldn't connect after a certain date.
On the upside there wasn't very much of a difference, speed wise, between the two. Depending on the server I can get 100-110KB/sec. But my dad who's fairly close to where I am maxes out at about 50KB/sec. Line noise will play a big part on how fast you d/l speed is. If your dad's place as 4-5 extensions attach to the main line, all that noise will slow down the DSL.
There are a couple of tweaks you can use to help the speed. Since Windows assumes you running dial-up, some of the registry values are defaulted to that. Here's a little freeware program that saves you from having to manually edit the registry.
Set the MaxMTU to 1480, the RWIN value to 32120 and the TTL to 64.

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[This message has been edited by Rick (edited 22 May 2000).]