In message <4358A6A4.8010902@riscworks.net>, Timo Schoeler writes:
>Steven M. Bellovin wrote:


>> 
>> I think we've diagnosed the problem to some extent.  I can't help any 
>> more, since I know nothing of this board or PPCs.  I suggest you 
>> send-pr, including this analysis -- that it's a collision problem in 
>> half-duplex mode, manual or automatic -- and hope that someone who does 
>> know that NIC can help.
>> 
>> 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
>i filed a PR [0] -- No. 31858 -- Tue Oct 18 20:16:27 2005 and asked on 
>the list whether anyone has seen this, too. a thing to avoid, it seems?
>
>timo
>
>[0] -- http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=31858
>
I think the discussion has been helpful -- there's been analysis done 
that isn't in the PR.  

Of course, there's also been a lot of noise...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb