Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:51:36 -0400 From: "Bigelow, Andrea L." <BigelowA@SEC.GOV> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: networking problem? maybe Message-ID: <DAFBDAFECE8ABA48A14ACFAE3707F41A020054A1@opc-sec-exch1>
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If you have more than one computer available, try linking up a switch to your second Ethernet card and running a test between two machines that should not touch the gateway. What's your internal LAN speed when the gateway is not involved? That will tell you whether it's the gateway you need to look at. To explain better: ADSL | | (a) FreeBSD GW | (b) | Switch / \ Machine 1 Machine 2 Have Machine 1 talk to Machine 2. What's your speed? If it's significantly faster, then it's time to look at the gateway. If not, look at the switch. If it's the gateway, try reconfiguring your gateway so that the (b) ethernet card talks to the ADSL line and the (a) card talks to your LAN. Any change in speed? If so, it's probably the card or the config associated with it. If not, it's probably your routing configuration. Hope this gives you something to start from! -----Original Message----- From: neko hime [mailto:chibineko_aya@yahoo.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:02 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: networking problem? maybe Hi there, i have just installed freebsd 4.9 one of my machies. This box is configured to be a gateway/router. The install was a base install, and i recompiled with the IPFILTER options. Ive added the net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 to my /etc/sysctl.conf. When accessing the internet (via ADSL/PPPoE) on the gateway machine, my downloads are very fast, and im very happy. my problem is that when i connect any computer to this LAN, the speed drops dramatically. For example: From the gateway machine speed > 90K/s. From Machine attached to gateway machine speed < 10K/s. Im not very good with networking, so im not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. May someone suggest something for me to check. I would like to keep my gateway with freebsd. I hope this wasn't too confusing. thank-you aya Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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