On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:25:45PM +0200, Martin Josefsson wrote:

> > > The firewall on the DSL is an Athlon XP 1500+.  The firewall on the ISP
> > > line is a PII 333.  I will check on the full/half duplex issue.
> > 
> > That's a hell of a difference, and could conceivably account for the 
> > bandwidth.   I'd say it depends on how much RAM you have in the PII/333 and 
> > how many connections you're trying to support.
> 
> No way a pII 333 is to slow to handle 2Mbit/s, my old 486 can handle
> that easily. You would have to trash the conntrack hashtable with
> multiple attacks to even have a chance of getting it that slow.
> 
> I also believe there's a duplex-mismatch somewhere, probably between the
> firewall and the internal network.

In that case a simple ping flood across the suspicious link can help...

Ramin

> 
> -- 
> /Martin
> 
> Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat
> you with experience.

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