On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:52:33 EDT Karl Poglitsch wrote:

> OK, hopefully the following is what was requested...
> 
> The machine is a Pentium 200 Mhz machine with 48M of memory.  Two 3Com
> 3C905-TX cards are being used in PCI slots 1 and 2.  Booting off an IDE
> CD-ROM.  Firewall is running fine, no weird messages in the syslog.

Shouldn't be any problems here.  I would think a P-200 with
PCI NICs should be capable of routing 3000kbps without creating
a bottleneck.
 
> Hopefully the following is what was requested and makes sense to someone...

This information helps.  As far as I can tell, everything looks
fine.  The NICs initialize properly and the routes look correct.

You may want to run "ip link -s show eth0" and "ip link -s show eth1"
after running the speed test.  You should see fairly large values
in the RX and TX columns.  There should not be many (if any) errors,
dropped packets, or collisions.
 
You may also want to run the "uptime" command immediately after
performing the speed test.  The three load average values should
all be less than 1.0, and probably much closer to 0.0.

If those commands don't show any problems, you may want to look at
the first two columns of the "ipchains -nvL" output.  Large values
in DENY or REJECT lines indicate the firewall is blocking large
numbers of packets.  They could be interfering with the tests.
(Although I doubt the packet filtering is causing any problems.
The bos.speakeasy.net net test seems to use plain-old HTTP.)

Finally, if you haven't already, you may want to try a large
download from a fast server (e.g. one of the SourceForge
download mirrors) and see if you really do get different speeds
with and without the firewall.

> Thanks in advance...

Sorry I wasn't more help.  Hopefully someone else will pick
up on something I overlooked.  Or maybe the suggestions above
will help you diagnose the problem.

--Brad

> KARL

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