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Hi all,
  I am having a few problems with IP masquerading being VERY slow.  I have
gotten to work successfully (sorta).  Here are the problems I am having.
First, when I browse the Internet from my client machines, I am getting
terrible connection speeds.  Downloading anything or even opening web pages
takes forever.  Furthermore, I have noticed that the connection times out.
Restarting the network module will restore the connection.  I have a cable
modem from AT&T @home.

My masq script is very simple in efforts to try and pin down the problem.

/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160
/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ

In an effort to speed up the Internet I have setup a cacheing-only DNS
server.  I have yet to see any performance gains.  One interesting thing I
found is that when I connection timeouts, the bandwidth is boosted to what
is normally should be and then times out within a few seconds.
Btw, I am using kernel version 2.2.16.  I did look in the faq about setting
the mtu to 1500, but because I am using ethernet cards they are already set
1500 by default. I don't know what else to check or do?

>From what I understand, any client machines should be just as fast as if the
cable modem were directly connected to the PC.  Or is this normal operation
for IP masq?  I have the linux box being a gateway with two windoze boxes as
clients.  I am using a P133 with 16mb of ram as the linux box.  This should
be sufficient right?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sanjiv
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