From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 16: 9: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216C837B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp4.knology.net (user-24-214-63-227.knology.net [24.214.63.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 188BD43E6A for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 29154 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2002 23:08:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.34.52) by smtp4.knology.net with SMTP; 25 Sep 2002 23:08:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Kelly To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance issues with natd Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:08:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20020925182007.M55006-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <20020925182007.M55006-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209251808.57427.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: [...] > > All that said, it wouldn't hurt to try to use ipfilter or something > like that... that would avoid any extra money being spent if it > solves the problem (I doubt that it will but it might). It would be very easy to swap inside and outside interfaces. It might make things worse. It might make things better. Might not be any change at all as there is still a memory move involved as long as the Rhino is in use. But the rhythm of the data transfer may be different and data rates may improve. Will never know until its tried. There is nothing seriously wrong with the performance of ipfirewall. As for "spending money" the Rhino-based card mentioned is one of those $10 to $20 super-cheapies every Office Depot, BestBuy, and Walmart stock. Watching at hamfests and "computer shows" one can purchase used Intel 10/100's for under $10. Possibly my best deal was 3 for $8 altho I bought some DEC Tulip-based cards for 3 for $5 recently. Surprisingly they all worked. Is best to shop for quality. That is why we are BSD users. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message