Hi Limaunion, > Is this problem a combination of old hardware with the xl interfaces ? > or are this interfaces crap too ? switching to a newer machine (pentium > 166) may help ? or should I buy different NICs ?
For myself, I decided to ditch the xl NICs and go with sk (D-Link DGE-530T, older Linksys EG1032) and vge (ZyXEL GN670-T, I believe). Two recent onboard re chips work fine aswell, but they wouldn't deal with carp. See: http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html under "Gigabit Ethernet Adapters". HTH... Nico P.S. (Although personally, I'd ditch the 486 aswell)
