From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 3:34:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com [146.115.71.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D8A14C25 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 03:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com) Received: from ENERGIZER (energizer.hamsterville.ultranet.com [146.115.71.106]) by poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (8.9.3/8.9.0/1.0-bcg) with SMTP id GAA09322 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 06:35:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <011101bf10af$d061e120$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> From: "Ben Goodwin" To: Subject: Fw: router/firewall woes Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 06:36:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd posted the following w/out being subscribed, so I'm not sure it even made it.. I'm subscribed now, however :-) Anyway I did answer the following.. I thought this info might be useful for someone else/the archives. Simply, I upgraded the machine itself (got myself a nice new p2-400; way overkill but whatever), re-installed the intel's, and it works beautifully. I guess that old machine was just too old to work right for some reason.. It'd be nice to know exactly why - FreeBSD issue or an issue with that mobo/bios? I dunno .. -=| Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 7:53 PM Subject: router/firewall woes > 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