LEAF itself typically cant be the cause because I've yet to see or hear of WinPoet or any of the other Windows based PPPoE clients being able to beat Roaring Pengiuns PPPoE client under Linux (which is what the Image I make available is using) Typically its either low quality NIC's, or in the case of PPPoE from my experience , not enough CPU power. My suggestion is to download top.lrp from my website ( http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/khadley/ ), load it on your LEAF box, run "top", and start maxing out your downloads from your other machine(s). Watch the Top output and if you notice CPU usage spiking to 100% at any time then you should probably use a more powerful CPU for your LEAF box. If you don't see any spikes to 100% for CPU usage with Top then I would suggest replacing your NIC's with some higher quality ones (such as 3com 3c905's, NetGear 310/311's, or 3com 3c509b's) If changing the NIC's doesn't help then grab those two new NIC's and put together another LEAF box using none of the hardware from your old one, the idea is to find out if maybe you have a bad motherboard or memory which can seriously effect your system speed (as any techie that been working on computers for way to long can agree apon is that a fried computer part CAN continue working as though nothing is wrong...but will be seriously slower than a good part) I hope some of this info helps! -Kenneth Hadley ----- Original Message ----- From: "H. O. Zint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 2:53 PM Subject: DSL speed using LRP &PPPoE Mr. Hadley: I am using your EigerStein2BETA PPPoE beta v.04. I installed a month ago and it seems to be working fine as a firewall. The router hardware is a 486 MB with 24 Meg RAM and two Netgear EA201 10Mb/s NICs. At the moment my network consists of a NT 4.0 (SP6) Pentium II based server with an Intel Pro/100+ 10/100 Mb/s NIC and the LRP router/firewall. The router machine and server are connected using a Netgear FS105 switch. If I connect the server directly to the DSL modem using WinPoET, I get server download performance in the range of 600Kbps. The max advertised by the provider is around 780 Kbps. If I connect the server to the network and use the router to access the DSL modem, the server download performance drops to 100-150 Kbps. The test I am using is hosted at http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1 and I use the San Jose test server. If I ping (64 bytes) the ISP edge router from the LRP machine the times range between 70 and 75 ms. If I ping (64 bytes) the ISP edge router from the server through the LRP firewall, the times are generally 63 ms with an occasional jump to 78 ms. Of course I am using NT 4.0 ping from the server and Linux ping from the firewall/router. Since the pings are roughly the same, I would expect download performance to be the roughly same - however downloading multi-megabyte files is not the same as a few 64 byte pings. Since I see nothing on the web about LRP slowing DSL performance, I assume I have misconfigured something in LRP or my test process is bogus in some way. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks. harry ====================================== Name: Harry Zint Voice: (703) 283-8555 Fax: (703) 331-0166 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================== _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
