Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 19:53:15 -0400 (EDT) From: ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: ben@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com Subject: router/firewall woes Message-ID: <199910012353.TAA02319@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com>
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I have a P100 here that I'm trying to do the following with ISDN | FreeBSD | | workstations servers That's 3 ethernet cards. When I first built it, all I had was an NE2000 pci and 2 3x509B's ... And I experienced the wonderful suckiness of the 3com's, and decided to just get 3 intel pro 100's .. So that's what I did.. I installed them, yadda yadda, things ping and seem to work. Then I notice some REALLY crappy performance .. long story but I played around for HOURS and noticed that about the only thing I could do was sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1 that improved my ftp transfers to be where they should be. But I was still experiencing telnet choppiness/total cut-out, and my SMB/windows traffic from the workstation lan to the server lan sucked so much that I couldn't even copy files ... ping floods worked fine, but FTP's would sometimes HANG, telnet's would hang, .. blech! I gave up and reverted to the 3com's and the ne2000 with a script that runs an ifconfig up every second to get around the buggy 3com stuff, but I'm wondering, what's up with not being able to use the intel's? I'd like to have better performance than the 3coms, and not suck down 50% cpu in interrupts while transferring files across the lan .. help! :-) notes: IPFW is compiled in, but to help rule out a rule problem I set the firewall_type to 'open' pentium 100, 32 meg ram, 2GB IDE 3.3-R custom kernel (I can send the config if someone wants it) TIA, -=| Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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