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Me You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was finally able to establish a connection from inside my LAN to the
> internet, but at a reduced level of performance. The Masq box
> utilizes my cable modem to its fullest, but the internal computers
> come to a crawl.
You did not describe your network configuration at all. I suspect,
though, that you have your cable modem plugged into the same hub that
the rest of your private LAN uses. Not only is this a security problem,
but it also means that packets from masq'd clients have a high
likelihood of colliding with packets going to/from the cable modem,
because the clients fire a packet at the masq box, which then
immediately fires the (masq'd) packet at the cable modem, very close in
time.
If you actually have two NIC's, one going to the cable modem, the other
to the private LAN, then this wouldn't be an issue. If that's the case,
it sounds like a bad NIC; you should test performance from one of your
clients to your masq box and see if it's any different.
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sometimes known as David DeSimone || today runs Unix, except the Mac (and
http://www.dallas.net/~fox/ || nobody cares about it). -- Bill Joy '85
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