I recently leased a godaddy.com dedicated server, and while they didn't
offer freebsd as an option, I used the fine guide at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ to get freebsd
installed. I noticed that the installation was taking a long time with ftp
as the source media, but I
I recently leased a godaddy.com dedicated server, and while they didn't
offer freebsd as an option, I used the fine guide at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ to get freebsd
installed. I noticed that the installation was taking a long time with ftp
as the source media, but I
still seeing really slow download speeds. I then decided to see if something
was wrong with the system by downloading the same image from the same source
that I downloaded on linux in order to bootstrap freebsd and the speed
difference was appaling. It had downloaded at 10.29 MB/s. Once freebsd
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:21 AM
To: David Polak
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0
adapter
David Polak wrote:
[snip]
try setting up speed and duplex options manually
I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to
about 200kb/s on the same file.
As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for
the chipset have been around for a
Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have
a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb
sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is
still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver
should perform better.
Alternatively, to avoid
Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have
a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb
sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is
still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver
should perform better.
Alternatively, to
