M J Dowden <mjdowden@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>     I have recently installed NetBSD 2.0 on my VAX 4000/300. ftp is 
> doing some odd things. Uploads are fine and take place at the usual 
> speeds, but downloads start out very slow and then grind to a halt. I 
> have only tried this over Ethernet on my local network. My hardware 
> is unchanged from when I ran v1.54. I haven't changed any ftp-related 
> config files. Has anyone else observed this?

Any chance there are 100/10 Ethernet cards attached to the network? 
Sometimes their speed/duplex detection goes awry, leading to xfer rates
that make dialup look fast.  

--jkl