Subject: Re: Network problems on 4000/500A
To: George Harvey <fr30@dial.pipex.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.ltu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/10/2007 07:23:19
Hi George,

I tested on a 4000/300 some week ago, and it showed that heavy network
traffic did lock the driver in some way.  I haven't had time to 
investigate it further,
and I don't know when I can get time to fix it.

-- Ragge

George Harvey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed 3.1 on a 4000/500A (KA681) and I'm experiencing some
> network problems with the ze0 interface. Xterms lock up when displaying
> a lot of text (man pages will often do it) and attempts to compile
> packages from a NFS mounted pkgsrc result in NFS lockups. Running some
> tests using ttcp, I find that the vax will receive data quite happily
> but seems to have problems with transmit. Looking back through the
> archives, I can see some discussion of similar symptoms from back in the
> 1.6 era but I haven't found anything to say they were resolved. I'd
> particularly like to get NFS working, are there any patches/workrounds
> that might help?
>
> Regards,
> George
>