On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 06:31:17PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> A little while ago I posted about my poor firewall that was running at
> half speed after a fairly major upgrade.
>
> I was reasonably convinced it wasn't hardware, so today I decided I'd
> try un-upgrading bits and pieces to see what was wrong. I firstly
> un-upgraded pppd back to the version I had on there before (I think). No
> difference. Then I switched back to the 2.2.18 kernel I had on it
> before, and after a reboot, all my downloads were running at their
> normal speed again (around 5.6-kbps). Now, I would be surprised if there
> was actually a relevant bug in the 2.4.18 kernel, so I suspect it's a
> kernel option that I've set. Can anyone think of any kernel options
> which would have the speed of either
>
> 1. Serial ports
> 2. PPP connections.
I, too have noticed remarkably poor performance of
kernel 2.4.18 when used in a IP masquerading gateway. When I 'upgraded' to
kernel 2.4.18, I experienced between 20 to 60% packet loss from my gateway to
elsewhere. I don't know what is wrong, but it really doesn't do an awful
lot of good for useability. I'll be upgrading to 2.4.19 seeing as it has
now been released, ASAP. I'll see how it goes.
-- Jon Teh
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