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KenDawg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The port forwarding seems really really slow. I'm workin on a cable
> modem that is at a rate of 1.5mb down and 1.5mb up. So there
> shouldn't be any problem there.
You've provided more information here, than you gave me in private mail,
so I have a better idea now how to answer your question. :)
Some people naively set up a cable-modem by simply plugging it into
their ethernet hub, right along with all their other systems. This
might seem to be a simple, workable solution, but it is not very good,
because of the traffic patterns that this will generate on a masquerade
system.
A system on the private LAN tries to send data to the internet, and so
it sends to the masq box. The masq box then immeidately fires that same
packet at the cable modem. But since the cable modem is on the same
ethernet wire, the packet will very often collide with the next data
packet being sent by the original host. Return traffic also has to be
sent over the wire twice, in close succession, leading to a higher-than-
average collision rate.
You will probably do well to get a second NIC for your masq box, and
run the cable modem on its own cable (no hub required). This will
drastically reduce collisions on your ethernet, and increase
performance.
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