Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:55:58 +0200 From: Rico Pajarola <pajarola@cybertime.ch> To: "David H. Brierley" <dave@galaxia.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing over a network, problems Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980729154530.006b710c@www.dlc.cybertime.ch>
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At 21:09 28.07.98 -0400, you wrote: >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. I have several Machines with 3C509 cards in them, and I always installed them over the net with no problems ever (they all have no cdroms), and I am getting 650k in both directions on a lucky day (550k otherwise). >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. one out of four = 50% ? Rico Pajarola To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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