Hi, -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Von: Watson Crick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Not getting much bandwidth through the firewall
> Hi, > > I've got OpenBSD 4.0 (release) on a laptop setup up as a router between 2 > subnets, and providing internet access through a 3rd nic to a DSL modem. > The problem is the bandwidth between the two subnets. I'm only getting a > maximum of about 500 KB/s between two 100mbit cards. > Top shows ~70% interrupt (~29% idle) while these transfers are going on. > I don't know what the bottleneck is in the system. Are the Linksys PCMCIA > nics crappy? Did I screw something else up? > > As a test I turned off pf and did ftp transfers from the OpenBSD machine > to/from each subnet, and the bandwidth was still limited to ~500 KB/s, so I > don't think it's anything in my pf setup. > > Thanks > There is a big difference in performance between 16bit and 32bit PCMCIA-Cards. From my experience you won't get anything higher as 1000KByte/sec from a 16bit card. I don't know the linksys cards but you should test your setup with two 32bit cards. And this has probably nothing to do with operating systems. Regards Stefan Kell
