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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 13:29:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Matthew Botos <mlb27@cornell.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp, dos install problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171328060.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990514093920.00c4d3d0@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu>

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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
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