-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports > on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400 > MHz box with 64 MB of RAM. > > When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get about 10K > Mbs up/down. > > If I move the connection to one of the Buffalo router LAN connections, I get > the advertised 15K Mbs up/down speed. > > So routing traffic thru the IPCOP firewall slows things down quite a bit. Is > this to be expected?
It is if IPCOP puts a load on the CPU or starts swapping memory. Does it? > I was thinking of changing the firewall to a debian box > running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to > not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHU6FvS9HxQb37XmcRAmPVAKCPsiY4SQqeZrUJUkdJ06YiaPvKIQCgwzk1 /hoql8Ju5cQs0C9bAK5h8eM= =DOG2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]