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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:36:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Willtor <willtor@mac.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: FTP stalls during install of 4.3
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Things to check might be network settings.  How do you connect to the
Internet?  If you go through ethernet, you might have a duplex mis-match
problem.  This can lead to stalling file transfers.  Also, if you go out
over a T1 line, you might be experiencing a line code mismatch, timing
problem, or repeater problem.  You can test for these using extended pings
with the -p option.  Run with:

-p 00
-p ff
-p 40
-p aa
-p 11

To test all problematic data patterns.

Also, if you do an Alt+F2 while it's installing, do you see any errors or
warnings on the screen?  It could also be an overwhelmed FTP server.  You
may also want to try one of the mirrors.

Joe Clarke

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Willtor wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I've been trying to install 4.3-STABLE over the network for a couple of
> days.  It generally gets going all right, sometimes even finishes dl'ing
> bin, but it never fails to stall (though it doesn't report anything, it
> just sits there).  I don't know much about ftp (I'm a pretty insecure
> about it), so I don't know where the problem is.  What group should I
> post this to?
>
> Thanks,
> -wml
> (Will Leiserson)
>
> ---
>
> "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish..."
>        --man tunefs (FreeBSD)
>
>
>


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