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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:27:51 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW + Samba -> performance problem
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970114132750.00a74de0@dimaga.com>

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At 12:58 PM 1/14/97 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>This same server dial out with PPP. One day I got a fit of paranoia, and
>decided to install ipfw to throw away packets coming from the net.  The
>firewalling worked, performance for reads from Samba is the same as ever,
>but performance for writes dropped from well above 500KB/s to approx 20KB/s
> (25-fold).

More information:  It seems that the read-speed dropped for _some_ people,
but not for all - personally, I found no change.  The write-speed seemed to
drop consistently.

(And yes, the problem is isolated to be when the firewall is enabled -
that, at least, is consistent :)


Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/




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