On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:39:05PM -0700, Peter Bako wrote: > > However I've noticed that if more than one or two people are getting email > from their ISP (standard pop3), then the third person to try to get email > will get an error that the server could not be reached.
- tcpdump on the soekris' internal and external ifaces for tcp and port 110 ? - can you duplicate this with any NAT stream ( put a biggish file up on an apache somewhere you control, have everyone in the office try to get it at the same time ), or after testing, is the pop3 thing the only way to see the issue? - you could try a stupid simple pf.conf, eg, one line that just says 'nat on $ext -> $ext' or so. - if two people are d/ling mail, what about just trying to telnet to ISP's pop3 server right from soekris. - could try pfctl -x misc or loud. don't be surprised if loud is very loud tho. that might be a pain over serial console. > Anyone have any idea as to the cause and a solution for this? I've though > it might be that the Soekris box is underpowered, but the processor is > basically a PII/266 with 128M of RAM, which should be enough for such a > small site. for just simple NAT, i would imagine you won't run into underpower issues in the context of this ~5person business. as long as you don't try to get "wirespeed" on them, or make them think about a ton of crypto, the soekris usually gets by fine with his little CPU -- jared [ openbsd 3.9-current GENERIC ( may 1 ) // i386 ]
