On Dec 16, 2004, at 6:34 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> My PowerMac 7300 seems to be dropping quite a few packets (about 40%)
>> with NetBSD 2.0 stable (generic).  I searched the list archives and
>> read quite a few similar inquiries, and a lot of them had 7300s as
>> well.  I couldn't really find a solution, though.  Is there one?
>> I had 1.6.2 installed a little while ago and networking was completely
>> unusable, dropping almost everything.  NetBSD 2.0 seems to have made a
>> significant improvement (ftp transfers over the LAN download at about
>> 950kbps, whereas before I was lucky to even get a connection).  I've
>> never had to deal with any kernel dropping packets, so I'm just
>> wondering what can be done about it.
>
> Is this with the original 604 installed? I run 1.6.2 on my 7300 with a 
> Sonnet
> G3/500, and I haven't had any problems with dropped packets through the
> motherboard Ethernet or the second rtk-based PCI Ethernet.

Yes, it has the original processor.  I do have a PowerLogix G4/500 card
that I've used in it before when Mac OS was on the machine.  I'll put
that back in and see if things are better.

Thanks,
chaz