From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 06:17:16 2004 Return-Path: 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 21A8716A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8149243D31 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2QEJZUv005496; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:19:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2QEJZkD005495; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:19:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail25@bzerk.org using -f Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:19:35 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net Message-ID: <20040326141935.GB4741@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200403260324.i2Q3O4f0032739@mail.cjb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403260324.i2Q3O4f0032739@mail.cjb.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth hit in natd/ipfw on 4.4-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:17:16 -0000 On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:24:04PM -0700, webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net typed: > Hey, I just my got NAT box running 4.4-RELEASE on an old Pentium 90 and > I'm experiencing a number of problems and I think they're related.. > there's been a major bandwidth hit in all my web surfing and my ICQ, AOL and MSN (using both Trillian and Messenger) are dropping connections -- a lot. I don't think a single day's gone by without a connection dropping or two. As I said before, I've taken a bandwidth hit on my surfing as well -- to the point where connection attempts are completely timing out. I've included an abbreviated rc.conf and my natd.conf here.. Please wrap your lines at ~70 characters. 4.4-RELEASE is quite old. Have you considered the possibility that you got rooted? Ruben