On June 4, Jan H. van Gils wrote:
> > heh, sounds like an intel ethernet interface. they were doing stupid
> > stuff to me too, and i threw them out and replaced them with tulip cards
> > i found in the supply cabinet.. :)
> 
> So I have a "stupid NIC", but can somebody then explain to me why
> the Kernel build running from the same nfs mount has no problems ?
> 

  Higher-level error handling/resends in NFS, maybe?  I haven't done
anything with RPC; not sure if it adds an extra layer or not...but if
it does, that might explain it.

      -Dave

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