From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 04:29:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA10122 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id EAA10110 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:29:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.3/8.8.3) with UUCP id NAA10303 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:27:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id NAA00646 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:27:51 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970114132750.00a74de0@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:27:51 +0100 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: IPFW + Samba -> performance problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/