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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:02:55 -0500 (EST), Nadin Merali
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>Ok I am about to kill myself
maybe not the best way to solve problems.
>I originally had a P233MMX machine with 2NIC both 10/100. I was using
>Windows 2000 as my router so that anyone on my network can surf. Now I,
>in the past two weeks have been killing myself trying to switch it over
>to linux. Now I kept the win2k machine so that everyone can surf while I
>am working on my Linux machine. I installed Mandrake 7.2 onto a P200MMX.
>It has had one 10/100 NIC and one 10NIC, however the 10 did not work so i
>replaced it. Now it has two 10/100 NIC. I am currently connected to
>ROgers@home with DHCP (on my win2k). It took me forever to setup my
>Mandrake machine to get on the net. To get it on my network was a hell of
>a lot easier. Now I have had enough trouble trying to setup IP MASQ. I
>gave up and used the mandrake's DrakX Internet Sharing. So I was finally
>able to surf the net from my internal netowrk. However the piece of crap
>is running very very slow, where I could get upto 250K from tucows, i only
>get 30K, and it takes me forever to surf.
30K what? 30 kbytes/sec? 30kbits/sec ? please specify.
just want to tell you: we have a 486 router here in my company,
running a downsized suse linux (the whole linux is not bigger than
50MB) and the box has no speed problems at all. so it does not matter
what kind of P4 2.5 GHz or 386dx you have. the box does nothing more
than forward/masq packets (usually).
lets divide your problems into subproblems to find, where the
bottleneck is:
box1 ---+
|
box2 ---+--- box4 ---> internet
|
box3 ---+
this is how your situation looks like, right?
now, if i understand your problem correctly, if you run linux on box4,
you can surf the net with box1-3 only slow (30K). is that correct?
1. what is the speed between box1-3 to box4? you can setup an
ftp-server on box1 and can download/upload a big file or some small
files to box4. you will see, how much speed the connection has.
2. what is the speed of box4 to the internet? is it big or slow?
if we know this information, we may be able to start digging a little
deeper.
also, please try to keep precise and technical.
just my $0.02
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