On June 30, you wrote:
> could be a problem with the cheap NE2000 clone card in the machine?  Or
> maybe like IRIX and Solaris, NetBSD and Linux just don't speak NFS on
> equal terms?

  Linux has known and acknowledged NFS performance problems.  I
believe Linus himself said a few months ago that fixing Linux NFS is
very high on his priority list.  If one has a choice between a Linux
NFS server and some other (*bsd?) OS, one should take this into
account.


                         -Dave McGuire
                          mcguire@neurotica.com