> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 16:41:53 -0800

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> Altho, my latest problem is the machine can't talk to it's nfs 
> server...even though the nfs server can ping it, etc...Only after it's 
> been up for about 5 minutes.......... *shrug*

That is almost definitely the "server dropping packets" problem.
Try doing all your NFS mounts with -w=1024 or with fstab lines like:
	server:/home	/home	nfs rw,-w=1024

If that doesn't do it, snoop with tcpdump on some other machine...

Gordon