> This recent talk about trouble with SPARC 10's onboard ethernet has me a
> bit worried. I have been considering upgrading to one, and had been
> wondering what pitfalls I might fall in to. Exactly how bad is the
> problem  with the 10's onboard ethernet, my plans were for a network of
> about 3-5 machines and up to 3 terminals, will I be hating life, or will
> the 10 handle it ok ?

I had overlooked this discussion, but now I just realized that my SS10
running SunOS 4.1.4 has problems with his ethernet.  It has a moderate
load (name server, nfs and samba) I have the following script running
at all times, I got tired of having turn off the machine (oh, we run
NIS):

while true; do ifconfig le0 up; sleep 60; done

I guess professionals OS like BSD and Linux will handle this kind of
problems just fine, but SunOS is not the case.

Miguel.
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