From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 28 18:10:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02913 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from trantor.galaxia.com (terminus.galaxia.com [204.255.210.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02804 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@galaxia.com) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by trantor.galaxia.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00207; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:09:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dave@galaxia.com) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:09:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "David H. Brierley" To: Chris cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing over a network, problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Chris wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a machine i just put together, it > saw the 3com509b network card fine, i did the partitions and all that, The last time I tried to do a network install with a 3C509 card I got pretty much the same results. I ended up moving a CD onto the machine and using that to do the install. When I finally got the machine up I noticed that the network seemed awfully slow. I did some performance tests and determined that in one direction I was getting about 250 KB per second but in the other direction I was only getting about 7 KB per second! (yes, I really mean seven with no zeroes after it!) I pulled the 3C509 card out and replaced it with a cheap NE2000 clone and performance in both directions jumped to over 300KB. I have since since similar performance on 3 other FreeBSD machines with 3C509 cards. The moral of the story: do not use a 3C509 card on a FreeBSD machine. P.S. to be fair, I also have 3 other FreeBSD boxes with 3C509 cards in them that seem just fine. However, a success rate of 50% is not what I would consider something to brag about. -- David H. Brierley dave@galaxia.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message