Hello Listers, On all nodes of a RAC database, oifcfg iflist takes 2 minutes to report the results. CRS version: 11.1.0.7, Platform: IBM AIX 6.1 /etc/hosts has all the IPs reported by the output of iflist command. 'netstat -in' also reports all the interfaces available at the OS level. Truss with -d and -f switch gives following: 1421608: 1155345: kread(0, " l i d : V L A".., 4096) = 2281 1421608: 1155345: kread(0, " l i d : V L A".., 4096) = 0 1421608: 1155345: kwrite(1, " H a r d w a r e A d d".., 36) = 36 308104: kread(9, " H a r d w a r e A d d".., 4096) = 36 1421608: 1155345: *126.7475*: close(1) = 0 1421608: 1155345: 126.7478: kfcntl(2, F_GETFL, 0x00000001) = 67110914 308104: 126.7478: close(9) = 0 1421608: 1155345: 126.7479: _exit(0) Without -f switch in the truss command, I see the following: 0.3459: kfork() = 258936 0.3484: thread_setmystate(0x0FFFFFFFFFFFD5F0, 0x0000000000000000) = 0 0.3487: close(10) = 0 0.3489: kfcntl(9, F_GETFL, 0x0000000110007DD0) = 0 0.3490: kioctl(9, 22528, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000) Err#25 ENOTTY 0.3509: kioctl(9, 22528, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000) Err#25 ENOTTY 2.3512: kread(9, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 4096) (sleeping...) kread(9, " H a r d w a r e A d d".., 4096) = 36 *117.3814*: close(9) = 0 On a different RAC cluster in same network, same command reports results within a Second as expected. 1286398: 3903619: 0.5246: kioctl(0, 22528, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Err#25 ENOTTY 1286398: 3903619: kread(0, " - - - - - - - - - - - -".., 4096) = 2626 1286398: 3903619: 0.5250: kioctl(1, 22528, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Err#25 ENOTTY 1286398: 3903619: kread(0, " - - - - - - - - - - - -".., 4096) = 0 1286398: 3903619: kwrite(1, " H a r d w a r e A d d".., 36) = 36 1286398: 3903619: *0.5255*: close(1) = 0 1347678: 2179287: kread(9, " H a r d w a r e A d d".., 4096) = 36 1286398: 3903619: *0.5257*: kfcntl(2, F_GETFL, 0x00000001) = 67110914 1286398: 3903619: 0.5258: _exit(0) 1347678: 2179287: 0.5258: close(9) = 0 Any hints/suggestions are welcome.. Note: oifcfg getif reports the results in a second. Regards, Saurabh Manroy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l