I'd like to thank those list members who sent me advice, it's greatly appreciated. Unfortunately nothing seems to have helped :( I tried using different QoS schedulers, but nothing I did could fix the problem. As someone suggested, I sent an email to the lartc mailing list in the hopes that someone there might have some insight into the issue, but I've heard nothing back so far.
But I have to wonder why I'm having this problem at all. As I mentioned in my previous email, the MASQ gateway box is running RedHat 7.2 in a completely default configuration. The only thing I did after I installed it was to setup the DHCP server and the iptables parameters to enable masquerading. And the same goes for my Slackware workstation... I haven't changed any of the defaults networking-wise other than configure the dhcp client. My setup really isn't very complex or unique, I think it's used by countless numbers of people all over the world as a very basic networking scheme. So why am I having this issue? Does EVERYONE who sets up such a basic network have the same problems? Or does my computer somehow magically force itself into a useless configuration? And for that matter, why are only Linux computers affected? Both the Slackware workstation and the RedHat MASQ gateway exhibit this problem, but the Windows XP workstation (client) shows no problems at all.. until the MASQ gateway clogs up the bandwidth with its own download. Since both the server and the Linux client exhibit the problem, my first assumption was that this was a server-side issue. But since the Windows XP machine is unaffected, that could also mean it's a client issue and not a server one. I can't be sure either way, I don't even know where to begin to look!!! ARGH! This is very frustrating!!! :( Frank Gore (ready to break down and cry) > From: Dragan Simic > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:27 AM > > You should set up and use some other queueing discipline on > your RH 7.2 gateway bow, rather than default pfifo_fast > discipline. Look at the Advanced-Routing-HOWTO for more > informations how to do that. ----------- > From: Sneppe Filip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:12 AM > > If that doesn't help, or you want to know more about tc, I > suggest you take your question to the lartc mailing list (see > http://www.lartc.org). I guess your problem is not strictly > netfilter related. ----------- > From: Julian Gomez > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:09 PM > > QoS. Search linuxdoc for a HOWTO. You need to have most > probably your masquerading box evenly divide your 56K line > into services which can reach a maximum peak of XX. See the > URL below for further help. > http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/howto/
