Hello Joao Carvalho, Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 10:42:48, you wrote: JC> Hi JC> i am trying to put together an bridge with shapping and firewalling capacity. JC> Ok i have it all now together working ok , my problem is that the performance JC> will go down the tube if there are to many connections, but the processor will JC> not show any load.
JC> with is excelent. JC> Now for my problem , i connected the bridge with one board to the router with JC> a crossover cable, and the other one to the network. JC> This network has a lot of clients, when i did an line count in JC> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max JC> i got more than 23000 conections. JC> what happened was that the outgoing trafic went from 18Mb to 7Mb, speed in JC> opening webpages went down it took about 10 more seconds to open webpage. How much the RAM on your box? JC> First i thought that there might be an bottleneck in iptables or netfilter or JC> even in connection tracking so i disconnected these options in the kernel but JC> the result was the same, what really is strange that the processor load JC> continues 0.00 0.00 0.00 . It should be so if You haven't any other processes except of the kernel. That values is the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over various periods of time (1, 5 and 15 min by default). JC> It is an AMD Athlon XP 2000+. JC> the motherboard is an top EPOX , and the ethernet cards are intelpro100. JC> does anyone have an sugestion why this is happening and how to fix that. -- Best regards, Nick Fedchik FNM3-RIPE(-UANIC) R.E.D Team Leader/DIS/UkrSat ISP, Kiev, Ukraine _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
