LOL, thats hilarious On 2/23/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm laughing now that I've figured it out. I had traffic shaping set up on > the firewall to what our old connection was. When I turned that off it sped > right up! Thanks for the help. It was actually your suggestion that > triggered my memory. > > On 2/23/06, Matthew Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:11, Carl Youngblood wrote: > > > My office just got a Utopia connection. We're using a great linux > > distro > > > called ipcop to handle our firewall/vpn needs. For some weird reason > > the > > > hardware that utopia installed does not like our firewall. When we hook > > > laptops directly up to the connection we get 15 Mbps, but when we hook > > up > > > the firewall we get about 1Mbps. We tried two different NIC chipsets > > > (Realtek and SiS) and they both gave us the same problem. The Utopia > > > technicians are dumb as a post and haven't been able to help us at all. > > > Can any of you recommend some troubleshooting ideas that could help me > > to > > > diagnose the problem? Since I'm troubleshooting this remotely I > > basically > > > only have ssh access to the firewall so any diagnostics I can run from > > the > > > command line would be best. Our ping times with Xmission (our Utopia > > > provider) are normal (2-3 ms), but our throughput is abysmal. mii-diag > > > tells me that both of our active NICs (the one connected to Utopia and > > the > > > one connected to our LAN) are running at 100baseTx full duplex. > > > /sbin/ifconfig says there are no errors or dropped packets on either > > eth0 > > > or eth1. Any other ideas? I don't have much experience at diagnosing > > > bandwidth problems like this. > > > > > > > Can the firewall box itself, when not acting like a firewall, get normal > > speeds? What about when it is acting like a firewall? How beefy a box is > > the > > firewall? > > > > Are any of your iptables rules showing lots of matches? > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
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