Long delays at boot

[Gianni Bragante]

I am experiencing long delays at boot when appliying a restrictive firewall
policy.
These are significant lines in /var/log/messages

Dec  9 17:10:11 localhost kernel: 00:12.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w
checksums enabled
Dec  9 17:24:28 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  succeeded

This is the policy in /etc/sysconfig/iptables

# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8 on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [7:1360]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [1:262]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [1:262]
COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003
# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8 on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003
*mangle
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [20:2032]
:INPUT ACCEPT [20:2032]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [10:4652]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [10:4652]
COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003
# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.8 on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003
*filter
:ChainEth0 - [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:ChainEth1 - [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
# Accept all by default
-A ChainEth0 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j ChainEth0
-A ChainEth1 -s 195.223.196.0/26 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j ChainEth1
COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Nov 27 16:16:28 2003


What the system in those 14 minutes does? How can avoid this delay?
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Gianni Bragante