On 12/03/2007 02:03 PM, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > On 3-dec-2007, at 7:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote:
>>> When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get >>> about 10K >>> Mbs up/down. >>> >>> If I move the connection to one of the Buffalo router LAN >>> connections, I get >>> the advertised 15K Mbs up/down speed. >>> >>> So routing traffic thru the IPCOP firewall slows things down quite a >>> bit. Is >>> this to be expected? >> >> It is if IPCOP puts a load on the CPU or starts swapping memory. >> >> Does it? >> >>> I was thinking of changing the firewall to a >>> debian box >>> running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the >>> firewall/router to >>> not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. >> > > FWIW, you could try m0n0wall instead, it runs fine on my FW with 64MB & > 450mhz PII. I get 10MB/sec throughput without full load on the cpu. > > Peter Maybe check your NIC. What do you get for this (etch): $ grep 'link up' /var/log/dmesg Maybe the ancient PII has an ancient ethernet card! Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
