From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 13:29:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D1C1540B for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26769; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:29:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Matthew Botos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp, dos install problems In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990514093920.00c4d3d0@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Botos wrote: > I've been trying to do a passive FTP install of 3.1-RELEASE and keep > getting horrible speeds on the order of 2KB/sec. The machine is connected > via a 3c509 card on 10baseT to an OpenBSD box doing NAT to a cable modem. > I get similar results trying to do an FTP install getting the files from > the OpenBSD box. I also tried putting the distribution on a local dos > partition, but the install program doesn't seem to find it there, nor does > it prompt me for a location. Can anyone help me out? . What CPU of machine? . What's the bandwidth over your cable modem? Perhaps the local segment is saturated? . Perhaps the OpenBSD box is slow? . Double-check the Ethernet card IRQ; it will revert to a 1/sec polled mode if the interrupt is wrong. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message