Hi Perry,

> > Should I keep reducing until I get no loss and set my mtu/mru to that
or
> > does this indicate an improper, but correctable connection?
> 
> I would guess that you are suffering from i386 COM driver lossage.
> 
> I would expect that by replacing your COM driver with one of Charles'
> more recent snapshots on ftp.netbsd.org in pub/NetBSD/arch/i386, the
> problem may go away.

I seem to recall installing the COM patches nearly two months ago when I
put this box together -- I'll double-check as well as see if there are
newer patches available.
 
> In any case, you should be able to get far more than 1500 bytes across
> reliably at a time -- that loss rate is unacceptably high.

You've been immensely helpful.
I'll let you know how it goes.

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