hey guys, recently, I set up a diskless linux box.
the NFS server box which provides the file system for the diskless box also serves as its gateway to the internet, using NAT. Everything appears to be working, ie, the nfs mounts work fine and I can access the internet from the diskless box, however the internet acces is very very slow. On the nfs server / nat box I perform an apt-get update and get 100+ KB/sec. I perform the same on the diskless box and get at best 8 KB/sec. Now, I have it set up so that the diskless box only has one 10 Mbs ethernet card, and both the nfs traffic and internet traffic are going over it. I understand that the nfs traffic could be slowing things down, but there is no way it could be affecting it this much. On top of all this, the non-us servers simply time out for the diskless box, even when they work flawlessly from the server box. the server is running debian, kernel 2.4.12. the server has two NICs, eth0 is my internet connection and eth1 connects to the diskless box. here is my "firewall" script run from the server: #!/bin/bash # Turn on IP forwarding echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables --flush iptables --table nat --flush iptables --delete-chain iptables --table nat --delete-chain iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface eth1 -j ACCEPT route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 66.45.64.4 dev eth1 # useful commands: # route -n # ip route show --- any ideas what the hangup could be? thanks, jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
