Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 02:32:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: David Petrou <dpetrou@kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD over PPP Message-ID: <199710150132.CAA07700@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:45:26 EDT." <199710140246.TAA14413@hub.freebsd.org>
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> I'm having a hard time installing the 10-21 FreeBSD SNAP over ppp. It
> seems to connect to the ftp.freebsd.org fine, but I'm getting
> throughput of less than 100 bytes per second (yes, bytes). My modem
> is connected to my gateway at 28.8k. This is not a network congestion
> problem because I get much higher throughput if I attach my modem to
> my linux box and try transferring files from the freebsd ftp server.
I'm not sure what the 10-21 snap is, but if it's from between October
6 & 12, it's been fixed now.
You should be able to dodge the problem (if you can't get a later
snap) with "disable vjcomp" and "deny vjcomp" before dialing.
> Any ideas?
>
> David
>
> P.S.: On another note, sometimes if I abort an operation (ctrl-c) when
> installing FreeBSD (for instance, if I get tired of watching a 100
> byte per second install), the screen goes completely blue and a few
> moments later the install dies with a signal 11.
Hmm, shouldn't do. A ^c in ppp should just close the connection.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
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