> After doing some reading in the archive of this list. I found a very similar 
> problem, but from what I was able to read there, it is only supposed to 
> effect computers with either 603 or 604 cpus and was only a problem with 1.6 
> after 1.6.2. To test this I installed 1.6.1 and I was able to build the 
> source tree without any problems and I also was able to build tcsh and pico. 
> But when I built a new kernel, and installed it. The server would not boot 
> off that new kernel. It says it could not find /sbin/init. I did not try the 
> new kernel after building the source tree and I will be trying that in a 
> little bit.

Interesting.

> I have read where several people are having network performance issues with 
> NetBSD 2.0+ and I want to avoid any more problems. So, I am not really sure 
> what to do.

There are no network performance problems with 2.0 outside of mc* 
interfaces, and the blue & white G3 doesn't have an mc* interface.

John