Rob Emanuele,

On Friday August 16, 2002 08:04, you said something about:
> I've got a dual PII 500MHz as a router in my office.  Its running
> RH7.2 and routing to its heart's content.  No filtering,
> masquerading, etc.; it's just passing internal packets around our
> subnets.
>
> I can only seem to get about 2Mbits/sec.  That seems pitiful.
> I'm using DEC Tulip cards as my interfaces.
>
> Any kernel or card params that can help speed things up?

You may want to give this a read...
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/09/28/LinuxAdmin.html?page=1

You don't mention what type or how much RAM is in the machine. I would look 
to that as the best place to start. But since it is older hardware (well, not 
real old but everything always advances), your RAM might be a little slow or 
not enough. Remember that you are trying to process everything all the cards 
see, it is very RAM intensive and if it has to go to swap even a little bit 
it will die down a lot.

You may also want to ensure that the cards have set to Full duplex and max 
speed. Many times the cards will negotiate wrongly with switches and go to 
the lower speed. You might have to force them high. Doficulty of that will be 
driver dependant.

Good luck.

-- 
Brian Ashe                                                     CTO
Dee-Web Software Services, LLC.                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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