Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 06:36:28 -0400 From: "Ben Goodwin" <ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: router/firewall woes Message-ID: <011101bf10af$d061e120$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com>
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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: <ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc: <ben@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com>
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
>
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