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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd nfs hang problem -- some data, temporary workaround Message-ID: <1992Aug5.163910.7067@super.org> Date: 5 Aug 92 16:39:10 GMT References: <RAEBURN.92Jul21181551@cambridge.cygnus.com> <RAEBURN.92Aug5002605@cambridge.cygnus.com> Sender: news@super.org (USENET News System) Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD) Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: b117e0 In article <RAEBURN.92Aug5002605@cambridge.cygnus.com> raeburn@cambridge.cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn) writes: >I'm not sure where to go from here, though. Any suggestions what I >might try next, either to help with the NFS problems or to speed up >incoming TCP? Or should I keep staring at etherfind and hope something >hits me? :-) If memory serves this uses the NS DP chip. look carefully at the source for the driver, and make sure it is handling ring-buffer wrap-around correctly. I screwed mine up (different system, not 386BSD) the first time, and the symptoms were the same as yours. ron -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- satisfaction: the feeling you get when you | rminnich@super.org run newfs on a DOS disk so you can install 386BSD.| (301)-805-7451 Now if only I could do this to AIX on the RS/6k ...|