Are you using CentOS 6?

On 12/6/2011 8:31 AM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> Interesting problem.  Here are some things you might like to check (beyond
> what you've already done).
>
> 1.  Try SFTP from different servers behind the firewall.  It may be
> something as simple as a bum network card on one of your servers.
> (although I would have thought your logs would have shown that)
>
> 2.  Run Wireshark (or something similar) to listen in to the network
> traffic during the transfer.  You might get clues to the actual
> transmission, or see some other disruptive traffic.
>
> 3.  Watch the blinken lights and see if the network is congested, or just
> something wrong with the transmission rate.
>
> 4.  Verify that you don't have an IP conflict (2 devices with the same IP)
> fighting for control.
>
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
>> One other piece of information...
>>
>> This "blockage" seems to be only for download (from server to
>> internet).
>>
>> I tried sftp tests uploading data (from internet to server) and the
>> transfer is fast as expected. But try to download and we're back down
>> to ridiculously low data rates.
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> At Monday, 12-05-2011 on 23:52 "Ricardo Kleemann"  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know what's happened suddenly to my firewall.
>>
>> I see no sign of device trouble, nothing very telling in my logs. All
>> of a sudden my data transfer rate has dropped drastically, but this is
>> only for servers behind the firewall.
>>
>> I've rebooted the servers, rebooted the firewall, rebooted network
>> switch.
>>
>> For data transfer testing, I run sftp to the server shorewall is
>> running on. And I get very fast transfers as expected.
>>
>> However if I attempt sftp to any server behind shorewall (in the loc
>> network) then I get ridiculous 10KB/s. This just happened suddenly and
>> I have not been able to figure this out.
>>
>> On the shorewall server, I look at the eth devices and I look at
>> /var/log/messages and I don't see any evidence of problems. I'm not
>> seeing any sort of driver or kernel errors logged.
>>
>> What could be "blocking" the transfer? How could I properly diagnose
>> this?
>>
>> I'm really lost at what could be happening here.
>>
>> I appreciate any help.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Ricardo
>>
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