/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting! /* ALSO: Don't quote this header. It makes you look lame :-) */ I've just recently set up IP masq between my internal LAN and my Roadrunner cable modem. FTP transfers are considerably slower--about half the speed as those from the gateway machine itself. The gateway machine is a Cyrix P-200+ with 64MB of RAM. The card connected to the cable modem is an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B (PCI), set to 10baseT half-duplex mode with the mii-diag program. The card connected to my internal network is an AE200-JL generic ISA NE2000 clone. The IP on the NE2k is 192.168.0.1; the IP for the external NIC is retrieved via DHCP. FTP'ing from the gateway machine to my ISP or to kernel.org, I get about 2Mbps. FTP'ing from one of the machines on my internal LAN, however, I get ~700Kbps. FTP'ing from one of the internal machines to the gateway itself works fine-- 6Mbps or so. The MTUs on both interfaces are 1500. tcpdump doesn't seem to be showing any fragmented packets on either interface. The machine has 95% free CPU and 24MB free RAM during the file transfer, and ifconfig shows no errors and very few collisions on either interface. cat /proc/interrupts doesn't reveal that either interface is using an excessive number of interrupts, and there are no interrupt conflicts. I have the ip_masq_ftp.o module loaded, and I am currently using just the default set of ipchains rules as outlined in the IP masq FAQ. IP masq was easy to set up and has been working well, but it is frustrating to know that my speed is just a fraction of what it could be. I've tried everything I can think of. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Gabe Jones _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ -- THIS INCLUDES UNSUBSCRIBING! or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting. You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
