* Jason Stubbs (2003-07-18 16:02 +0200) > On Friday 18 July 2003 22:48, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> my Gentoo box acts as a Router for a Windows XP host. On the Gentoo >> box the download rate is about *7,5 kB/s* on the XP host just *3,8 >> kB/s*. But: when I use a Cisco router for the Windows host, the >> download is about *7,5 kB/s*. >> >> So it looks like as the Gentoo router is limiting the bandwidth... >> What can I do to make the full 7-8 kB/s available to the clients?! >> >> Neither on the Windows nor on the Gentoo host is a firewall or a virus >> scanner running. Kernel is 2.4.20. >> >> I enable routing by: >> echo 1 >| /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING >> -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE >> >> This is my .config: >> http://www.thorstenkampe.de/tmp/config/view >> >> What else can I do or test?!
> I assume you have two net interfaces on the gentoo box? Do you get full > speed on both interfaces from the gentoo box itself? ppp0? Yes. eth0? Well difficult to measure, but it feels allright. > Looking at your config, I would suggest first trying kernel option > pci=noacpi. Tried that. Cannot even get a connection to the internet with CAPI/ISDN. "killall pppd" doesn't even give an error when no pppd is running (instead of "no process killed" when acpi is enabled). > There seems to be a few problems with acpi still. With my > modem, if I don't use pci=noacpi I also get about 1/2 the full speed. If > that doesn't work, try getting rid of apic as well - you have a single > processor, right? I'll try that... Thanks. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
