In article <Pine.A32.3.93.960525131359.15957A-100000@macro.stanford.edu> skippy@macro.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) writes:
>> 
>> That's a long time, especially on a fast pentium CPU.  All I can tell is
>> that on my system, the wd interface doesn't seem to make the things
>> noticeably worse, but the ep (3com509) driver seemed to cause more data
>> loss.  The real problem may be somewhere else, though, because I got
>> FIFO overruns even when everything were supposed to be idle.

Yes, the ep driver sets splhigh() while reading a packet. If you are on
a busy network, that can cause problems.

christos