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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