On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:34:44PM -0500, Andrew Kilpatrick wrote:
> I'm developing a theatre lighting controller product using NetBSD 
> and a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard.

Oh, nifty...

> - often very slow (<100K/s) transfers
> - network hangs when doing certain things (like resuming a screen
>   session over ssh) - ifconfig vr0 down up fixes it
> - erratic performance

Hmmm...  Can you tell if it's autonegotiating correctly?  Some of
these issues sound like the kinds of things you see if the two
endpoints disagree about the speed/duplex of the connection.  Or
if you have a bad cable.

-allen

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