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From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS performance problems
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:

No, we are running IPFW as IP filterin facility.

By the way: what kind of firewall is prefereable by FreeBSD, ipf or ipfw? What
are the benefits of each one? Which one is to be said to be the fastest one?


:>"Hartmann, O." wrote:
:>>
:>> Dear Sirs.
:>>
:>> Since yesterday morning, at the time, I did on all of our machines
:>> running FreeBSD the last cvsupdate, I have massive NFS problems and
:>> some delays in telnet and other network connections.
:>>
:>> This happens to all machines that has been updated. Has this anything
:>> to do with some TCP changes?
:>
:>Are you perchance running ipf on your machines? I just
:>upgraded a couple of my machines to 4.3 and NFS stopped
:>working. Flushing my ipf firewall rules solves the problem
:>and so does booting the previous kernel with the same set
:>of firewall rules works nicely. I'm investigating a bit
:>more...
:>
:>Cheers,
:>Jeroen
:>--
:>Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org
:>
:>"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
:>  upon the support of Paul."  --  George Bernard Shaw
:>

--
MfG
O. Hartmann

ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de
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