"Stephen Borrill" <netbsd@precedence.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:Pine.NEB.4.64.0711200844140.15541@ugly.precedence.co.uk...
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Zachary Kline wrote:
>>> -current no longer seems to need -no-acpi (thanks to whomever put
>>> in the necessary changes).  ne0 (was ne2) is not in GENERIC but
>>> still requires in the QEMU configuration.
>> Hi,
>>    This is good news.  When I've ran 4.0 with -no-acppi, I still get poor
>> networking performance.  In fact, ne2k and all other network devices seem 
>> to
>> time out regularly.  I never noticed this in 3.1.  In fact, ne2's
>> performance is so poor that the DHCP request goes unacknowledged...
>>    I hope this won't be an issue in the real 4.0.  Any tips in the 
>> meantime
>> to work around it?
>
> What networking options are you using? By default, qemu uses its own 
> user-mode stack and so DHCP is done by qemu itself.
   Hi,
    I use either -net tap, or -net user as you suggest.  Both give extremely 
poor performance with -no-acpi.  I don't quite understand why this is, 
myself.
Thanks,
Zack.