hi, I have a quick question, maybe I just haven't
thought this all the way through and the answer is
obvious...
well, the subject line doesn't give justice to my full
question, here is the scenario.
When I've plugged in an openbsd machine (by wire) to
the netgear wgu624 router connected to my cable modem,
and do a cvs checkout with my closest mirror (running
over ssh), I get very very dismal results. The files
come in dog slow, only like a couple files per minute.
So slow, that I get reset by peer after a few hours.
Meanwhile, all other http downloading etc., works
super fast.
When I've plugged in the same openbsd machine (by
wire) to the soekris net4801 (obviously running
openbsd) connect to the same cable modem (ie, swap out
the netgear), and do a cvs checkout to the same mirror
(running over ssh, everything completely the same), I
can download the whole source tree in a couple of
minutes, so fast I can't read the filenames.
Of course I'm always going to use the soekris, but for
a short time I was required to remove my soekris and
put the netgear there temporarily. These performance
results confused me.
Maybe I need to post more information (and let me know
if I do). I'm confused. If the NAT was really that
much slower on the netgear, I'd see it with the http
traffic too, right? This is really only noticeable
with ssh traffic.
sorry if this is a stupid question
thanks
b
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