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From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 2.2-960130-SNAP experiences 
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Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 19:48:46 -0700
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Hi,

>[Install errors for NFS]
>
>>  [lines deleted]
>
>> ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 maddr 0xd8000 msize 8192 on isa
>> ed0: address 00:00:c0:ac:7e:14, type WD8003E (8 bit) 
>
>Select ``NFS slow'' in the options menu.  Your 8-bit ethernet card is
>being swamped with 8-KB NFS packets.  (My 3C503 did show this, too,
>even though the server does also use a 3C503 only.)

Thanx, that fixed the problem!  As I stated b4, I can do a 2.1.0-RELEASE
install on exact same hardware without this problem.

So:

 1: this is the expected behavior now and the possible need for the "NFS slow"
    option should be well documented.

or

 2: something needs fixing.

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