Fuzzy Fox wrote:
> > MASQ has been up and running fine, but performance starts to degrade
> > over a day or two
>
> That's pretty odd. I don't think I've seen that reported before, so
> there might be something different in your configuration than what other
> people run.
>
> Do you add/delete ipchains rules on a regular basis? I just saw a post
> on linux-kernel about a memory leak when deleting rules...
Don't cring, but I'm using ipfw not ipchains and there is not filtering occuring at
this time, only masqing...
>
>
> When you are seeing the performance problem, is it only masqueraded
> systems that show a performance drop? If you login to masq box and run
> a ping from there, is it fast? Is an ftp transfer direct from the masq
> box faster than one from behind the masq box? As you can see, this
> would show if the masq box is at fault.
>From the box, I can ping IP's on my LAN, going out eth1, but I can't reach anything
that would be masq'd going out eth0 when the system fails!
Yes, I know it looks a lot like the box's fault, but I ran years with a single NIC
and modem connection and never had the problem... It seems to be something related
to the DUAL NIC configuration, but I'm clueless as to why...
>
>
> > The ISP states they can ping my interface.
>
> Do they get good ping times, or bad ping times?
Good, 30-80 ms.
>
>
> > Cold restarts brings life to the box, but this isn't an ideal senario.
>
> It does sound like the problem is on the masq box, if a reboot fixes it.
Yeap!
>
>
> > I never had problems with dialup and single NIC operations and I'd
> > rather not spend my weekend upgrading and building kernels, any
> > suggestions?
>
> In my experience, upgrading a kernel is an hour-long process, at most,
> not a weekend project. But as with all free software, it does come at a
> price: Your time. :)
Well, I'm on a SW distribution and it doesn't use the new C libraries... The last
time I attempted to upgrade to it, what is it called GLIB2?, I choked my entire
system...
I know simple kernel reconfigs and builds go fast, but if I've got to jump to 2.2.x,
well, I'm not that good to do everything in an hour. I can jump to Cox's .37, but
again, I'd hate to waste the time and gain nothing...
Barry
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