[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>you must really have a big pipe!!
So my girlfriends tell me. Oh, you meant my bandwidth? ;)
>i haven't felt any performance hit during my initial tests (and this is in
>an ethernet environment). which services suffered during the transition?
>could your case be kernel version dependent?
Possibly. I really did not bother to investigate, but a simple A/B test of ipchains
vs. iptables shows poor TCP performance when using a 2.4 kernel. I should probably do
more tests, but lack motivation since the problem is solved, as far as I can tell. I
am migrating the entire system to Debian because I am no longer happy with RH's
releases so I'll be able to do more tests sometime next week.
>-marlon
>
>
>you wrote:
>------------------------------------------------------------
>If you're using a 2.4 kernel you're pretty much forced to migrate to
>iptables simply because ipchains performance is really bad.
>
>I upgraded a gateway/firewall machine to RH7.1 and the 2.4 kernel. It uses
>ipchains by default. I immediately recieved complaints that network
>performance (as perceived by users behind the firewall) deteriorated
>considerably. Migrating the firewall to iptables fixed the performance
>problems.
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