Hi Mr. Swiger!

> He may be talking about an "interrupt aliasing" problem with the Intel
> gigabit
> NIC when APIC and SMP is enabled; Jeff, you might try disabling the USB
> controller if you can and see whether the NIC works better without
> something
> sharing the interrupt.
>
> There's a thread here with lots of details:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058383.html
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>

Not exactly on NetBSD 3 branch. I also experienced that personally when I
installed FreeBSD 5.x on the same machine (Dell 2800). But I'll go check
tommorow if theres an interrupt conflict and probably thats the reason why
I'm generating errors when dong huge file transfers via network.

Joseph