Olaf Seibert wrote:

> On Mon 06 Mar 2000 at 17:12:19 +0000, Kent Polk wrote:
> > I have had an NFS problem with ep/3C509 as a NFS client for almost
> > a year. The server is a Solaris Ultra 5 and this problem only exists
> > with the NetBSD (1.4.0/1.4.1) NFS client. The problem is that when
> > *sending* files around 2MB and larger, the NetBSD client starts
> > hanging for typically from about 30 seconds to a minute or so and
> > sometimes it simply fails. When it fails, nfsstat indicates the
>
> Now we are blaming 3C509 cards, I have another data point. On a 486 at
> 66 MHz, with 3C509, running 1.3.2, the network sometimes hangs for 30
> seconds or more. The machine does not react to pings or other network
> activity, but otherwise works fine from the console. I have mostly, but
> not exclusively, seen this with samba. Also with nfs and ftp. The data
> transfer is typically towards this machine. There seems to be a
> partial(?) data depencency, since it happened more than once that a
> particular file just did not want to be transferred.
>

The same 30 s delay happens with we driver also.
(50MHz 486 , 1.3.2 , 16M ram)


>
> The network performance seems rather below par when it works normally.
>
> No messages are ever logged.
>
> -Olaf.
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