On Sat, 11 May 2002, Michael Thompson wrote:

> This was on a MV-III+ with the 1.5ZC kernel. I was compiling the kernel on
> a NFS mounted filesystem. The message transmit logic died was displayed
> three times, the machine paused for about 30 seconds, and it picked up
> after that. During this time I could ping the VAX from the NFS server.

I believe it.  I have been complaining about this since 1.4 and every time
this thread goes around someone says it's either fixed or better in
current..  So far the *fix* has never made it from current to any
released/stable version.  Another thing I hear a lot is that it's cruddy
hardware and you get the same problem on every OS.  That's a load of crap
as well.  The *only* other OS I have seen it happen on was Ultrix (don't
remember the version) but there was a patch to fix it.
Now I am not a good enough programmer to fix this myself or I would
because I love my NetBSD and I love my Vax as well.  If someone can
actually address this problem and get a working resolution, can we
*please* get it into a released/stable version?  Running current is not an
option for people with a dial-up connection.  Perhaps an easy retro patch
for 1.5 and or 1.5.2 as well?  Now that would be progress!

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