On 2 Jan 1997, Chad Mynhier writes:

> 	There's an entry in the FAQ (2.7.3c) that talks about a
> problem that I'm having.  I have a 486DX-40 running 1.2 with an
> Adaptec 1522 scsi card and a 3c509 ethernet card.  When I try to
> ping my other machine, I won't see anything for about 30 seconds, at
> which time I'll get all of the pings returned.

I've not seen this at all here, and we use 3C509's under NetBSD 1.2 in
our machines.  They're all set to IRQ 10, though, not 9.  NIC
performance seems OK (500 to 700+ Kbytes/second FTP throughput is
normal).  We only have one SCSI controller per machine, so you might
try using just the 1542 controller and see if that gets rid of the
delay?

Jonathan
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