Hi - I have 3 RH 6.2 servers networked in the following manner:


                                +-- eth0 -- [file server] ------- eth1 --> LAN
                                |
-- ppp0 -- [firewall] -- eth0 --<
                                |
                                +--- eth0 -- [internet server] -- eth1 --> LAN


I have file server mounting the firewall and internet server via NFS, 
and use the file server to perform nightly backups to DAT.

I'm seeing some strange network slowness which is affecting 
connections to the firewall from the other servers. When copying a 
file from the file server to the firewall over NFS I only get a 
throughput of about 5Kb / Sec (if I'm lucky) over a 10BaseT 
connection.

I just tried to do a test copying a file from the firewall to a 
server using scp but received an error:

Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 11.

I tested scp between the other servers and it works fine... there's 
no such problems between the file server and the internet server, but 
both have problems communicating with the firewall - so I'm pretty 
sure it's the firewall at fault...

Following are some stats for the firewall machine... I was hoping 
that someone may be able to point me in the direction of a process to 
troubleshoot this situation and work out what's going on. Note that 
this slowness does not only affect NFS - although we don't really 
notice it since the most of the traffic this machine sees is ipchains 
firewall / masqueraded traffic over a 56K link.

#top
   9:44am  up 20 days, 35 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.01
60 processes: 59 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  2.1% user,  2.2% system,  0.0% nice, 95.6% idle
Mem:    38700K av,   27176K used,   11524K free,   12520K shrd,    8016K buff
Swap:   66488K av,    3780K used,   62708K free                    7012K cached


#ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:16:64:B5
           inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
Mask:255.255.255.240
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:3341455 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:31246
           TX packets:4390377 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
           collisions:486 txqueuelen:100
           Interrupt:5 Base address:0x290 Memory:c8000-ca000

#cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0
   0:  173020008          XT-PIC  timer
   1:         17          XT-PIC  keyboard
   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
   4:  104457121          XT-PIC  serial
   5:    7690294          XT-PIC  SMC EtherEZ
   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
  14:   18218332          XT-PIC  ide0
NMI:          0
-- 
Telezygology
Manager, Technical Systems
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