On 5/13/2014 2:46 PM, Tadd M. Balfour wrote: > I'm new to Shorewall, but not to Linux. > > I've been brought on to a project where the Shorewall seems to be > hindering the overall bandwidth out to the cloud. > > The business has a 50M x 5M fiber circuit with TW Cable. > > When they run a speed test from inside the LAN, they are getting > horrible download speeds. Less than 3MB! > > The TW Level III Tech indicated that he felt that it was the Firewall > that was causing the issues. > > My job is to figure out if that is the case. > > After poking around, I ran the following command: /sbin/mii-tool -v eth_wan > and got these results: > > eth_wan: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok > product info: vendor 00:50:43, model 11 rev 1 > basic mode: autonegotiation enabled > basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok > capabilities: 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD > advertising: 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD > flow-control > link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control > > That looks to me like it is negotiating only a 100 Megabit connection. > > Is that correct? >
It look like only a 100 Megabit connection. But I know of no way in which Shorewall can affect the negotiated link speed. > What else can I do to see what is going on? Does this Shorewall configuration use traffic shaping? If so, there are some FAQs that deal with slow download speeds. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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