In message <20021218143504.AC8271442F@tiamat.goathill.org>, Kent Polk writes:
>I had a defective hub a while back that caused something very much
>like this. I would see NFS errors in the log files but can't remember
>what they were. Everything else seemed to do fine.

Okay, this has gotten surreal.

Let's look at a line in /etc/fstab:

205.166.146.2:/export/ipaq/home	/home	nfs	rw,-Tis	0 0

# mount_nfs -Tis 205.166.146.2:/export/ipaq/home /home

works 100% reliably.

# mount /home

works about one time in three.

What on earth am I missing here?

-s