On Fri June 28, 2013 05:55:54 PM Tom Eastep wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri June 28, 2013 05:19:29 PM Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I've been having a really strange thing happen. I can't remember when it
> >> happened, or if it coincided with a shorewall update, but if I have
> >> shorewall "running", my 100mbps connection is limited to about 1-6mbps
> >> per connection. This is with TC/Shaping/QoS disabled or enabled.
> >> 
> >> I have no idea if its shorewall doing something funky or ipables or
> >> what, but if I stop shorewall, I can download from a vps I have at
> >> upwards of 10MB/s or more. With shorewall started, I get 300KBps max.
> >> 
> >> That said, it seems to be a per connection limit. I can get multi MB/s
> >> speeds when downloading a debian iso over bittorrent for instance.
> >> 
> >> I've tried disabling a bunch of my rules to see if that would help, and
> >> it hasn't.
> >> 
> >> I've tested transfering to and from the firewall locally, and those
> >> connections are fine, and can saturate my GbE network, with or without
> >> shorewall running. I've also tested transfering from the firewall itself
> >> and from machines behind the firewall, both ways exhibit the same
> >> problem.
> >> 
> >> My firewall is a Soekris 6501-50 running debian sid, on a 100mbps/5mbps
> >> cable internet connection.
> >> 
> >> I'd appreciate any insight anyone might have.
> > 
> > Ok, I managed to figure out one thing. Apparently I was disabling traffic
> > shaping wrong, commenting out TC_ENABLED rather than setting it to No.
> > This used to work, but an update somewhere along the line seems to have
> > changed that.
> > 
> > So, with traffic shaping enabled, I can't seem to get any decent speed
> > with a config that used to work fine.
> 
> Check the traffic shaping section of the FAQs.

Ah. So new linux feature causing a conflict with tc. Good to know. More or 
less works now. Thanks for the help.

> -Tom
> 
> Tom Eastep        \ Nothing is foolproof to a
> Shoreline,         \ sufficiently talented fool
> Washington, USA     \
> http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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