Okay, my turn now to report a strangeness... 
 
Running X11R6 (xarm-18) with kernel 4444 (Yes Mark, I 
know but its stopped being strange now - as long as  
I dont ftp as root in an Xterm!!!). 
 
So I leave myself logged in to a remote machine over 
night (either running X-lock or not depending if I 
can be bothered....). (About 5pm) 
 
When I come back in in the mornint (about 9am), I have 
to do the following to get _any_ network traffic 
in and out of the machine: 
 
	ifconfig ea0 down 
	ifconfig ea0 up 
 
Now, (and here's the crunch), I do remember having to do 
this after around 3 days on my RISCiX box. It also 
had an ether3 card in it (good machine that - arm3 with 
a small increase in the crystal speed and maxed out on 
Ram - X11R6 on that too even if it did take an age to 
build....) 
 
Paul 
 
p.s. BTW, the question has just come up here; and I know  
its off the point, but other than RISCiX whats the best 
UNIX for an old A540 (currently running RISCiX and 
showing it) to be upgraded to? As I understand it the only 
real choice is Linux right? (Opps, sorry to mention that 
here :)