On Saturday 14 April 2007 15:02, Alan Chandler wrote: > The problem I have is this. I have a linux desktop (machine D) siting > on a LAN in my home. This is connected to a linux firewall/nat router > (machine S) with two ethernet cards. One links out to the internet, > the other connects to the internal lan. Connections to the internet > from machine D go through machine S, which acts as a NAT translation. I > do all the control and firewalling using IPTABLES in machine S. > > Downloading a video from youtube onto Machine D's desktop I get a > download speed of about 7Kbytes/sec. Which is very low. If I try to > download the same one by ssh'ing into mahcine S and running wget on the > same url, I get a download speed of 80Kbytes/sec (ie more than 10 times > faster).
Alan, I would try wget on machine D to verify that the problem is network rather than your browser on D. If that doesn't answer your question I would run wireshark (or tshark from the command line) for a few seconds while machine D was downloading via S, being sure to capture on all interfaces. The result will show what is happening to packets trying to cross S. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]