Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:24:07 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Darryl Hoar <darryl@osborne-ind.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewall & DSL performance Message-ID: <20040310152407.GD760@nkinkade.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <009401c406a9$635e2350$0701a8c0@darryl> References: <20040309175520.GK8152@gentoo.netauth.com> <009401c406a9$635e2350$0701a8c0@darryl>
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--O3RTKUHj+75w1tg5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:10:05AM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Well, > last night I changed the ipf.rules file to be: >=20 > pass in all keep state > pass out all keep state >=20 > to completely open my firewall to test my performance. >=20 > Well, it didn't make a lick of difference. Still got > 700K. >=20 > If I open the firewall like I did, shouldn't performance > be a non issue ? >=20 > thanks, > Darryl=20 I wouldn't rule out the inside network card. I recently noticed something similar here and it turned out that, though a particular network card worked on the whole, it's performace was inexplicable miserable. We swapped out the cheap SiS card with a good 3Com card and the problem was solved. Is there any way that you could get ahold of another NIC to test? Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --O3RTKUHj+75w1tg5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFATzMXO0ZIEthSfkkRAl38AJ48traOfxmms1/r2wzCJwOJHF9p9QCfaYH9 RcOsS/osnshQFCwJ6pXde8o= =t+yO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O3RTKUHj+75w1tg5--
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