On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 01:19, Entelin wrote:
> Why does printing the route table take so long? Something thats always
> bothered me a bit.
How long does your's take?
ted@davinci:~$ time netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0
eth1
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0
eth1
real 0m0.010s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.000s
ted@davinci:~$
Perhaps you are not using the -n so there are DNS lookups?
--Ted