On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:23:19 +0200
Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.ltu.se> wrote:

> Hi George,
> 
> I tested on a 4000/300 some week ago, and it showed that heavy network
> traffic did lock the driver in some way.  I haven't had time to 
> investigate it further,
> and I don't know when I can get time to fix it.

Just for info, I have now installed a DESQA (qt0) and that works fine.
I've been compiling over NFS for the past hour or so with no problems.

George

> -- Ragge
> 
> George Harvey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've installed 3.1 on a 4000/500A (KA681) and I'm experiencing some
> > network problems with the ze0 interface. Xterms lock up when
> > displaying a lot of text (man pages will often do it) and attempts
> > to compile packages from a NFS mounted pkgsrc result in NFS lockups.
> > Running some tests using ttcp, I find that the vax will receive data
> > quite happily but seems to have problems with transmit. Looking back
> > through the archives, I can see some discussion of similar symptoms
> > from back in the 1.6 era but I haven't found anything to say they
> > were resolved. I'd particularly like to get NFS working, are there
> > any patches/workrounds that might help?
> >
> > Regards,
> > George
> >   
>