On Tuesday 09 July 2002 6:29 pm, Travis Crook wrote:

> Hello,

>     I currently have two firewalls running.  Both on Mandrake 8.1 running
> iptables.  I currently have two internet connections (one is a DSL line at
> 1Mb, the other is straight from an ISP at 2.5 Mb).  I can get 700Kb speeds
> through the firewall on the DSL line (which is about as fast as it ever is)
> but I only get about 500Kb speeds through the firewall on the ISP line. 
> Shouldn't I be able to get at least 2Mb speeds through this firewall?

What's your hardware (CPU, RAM, NIC) ?

How many connections do you have concurrently through the boxes ?

Quick way to get a rough idea:

wc -l /proc/net/ip_conntrack

 

Antony.

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