On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Andrew Reynolds wrote:

> After reading through the recent threads on the mailing list, I 
> took another crack at getting NetBSD running on my 4000-500A, and 
> was successful using the NetBSD 3.0 release files & the older mop 
> based bootloader mentioned previously. I'd love to be able to use 
> it as a test machine (it's by far the most treasured machine in 
> my possession), but I'm wondering if anyone can recommend the 
> most optimal client & server nfs settings. I've already had to 
> drop the read & write block sizes to 1024 so that the vax can 
> write to it's nfs mount reliably. The nfs server in question is 
> an x86 based platform running NetBSD as well.

A few year ago, before the VAXstation 4000 SCSI controller
was supported, I used a Linux (133-200 Mhz Pentium) machine
to netboot.  I never had any serious reliability problems
with the setup, but I only used the default settings.

-aw