yeah, at this point i'm inclined to think the problem is due to some weird
interaction between @home and NetBSD. I did some testing with connections
from the netBSD box straight to the @home network, and well, it took a good
fifteen minutes for lynx to finish loading slashdot, and around the same
amount of time to download MacInTouch. Obviously this level of performance
is not acceptable, and, considering I routinely saw transfer rates
>200k/second to certain reasonably fast sites with both the Debian and The
MacOS 8.5 boxen, I would tend to think NetBSD is at least part of the
problem. This being said, I don't know what to even try to fix it(or where
to start,which means it's time to hunker down with tcpdump and the relevant
FMs). I tend to agree with Erik that just getting acceptable performance
from an @home is the first step and then we can figure out where to go from
there. comments, suggestions, and especially data points from others
running NetBSD on @home are apprecited

At 6:27 PM -0800 3/16/2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Erik Huizing wrote:
>
>> I think the proper first is to get the machine using the cable modem at a
>> decent speed first, then worry about NAT/ipf. It seems like all the
>> problems stem from the fact that the connection to @Home is so slow. That
>> aside, I'm not sure where to start looking for problems. One thing that
>> concerns me is on boot, I get this:
>> ae0 at nubus0 slot d: Farallon EtherMac II-TP, 32KB memory
>> ae0: Ethernet address xx:xx...
>> ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
>> ae0: len 000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 0e next 00 stop 80
>> ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280
>>
>> So I guess my questions are: is my card supported? is the memory
>> corrupt/next packet error a serious problem? How do I fix it?
>
>It just means that MacOS left some noise in the card's on-board memory.
>Nothing to worry about, as long as it only happens once during boot.
>
>
>David


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