Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:09:38 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: eivind@dimaga.com (Eivind Eklund) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW + Samba -> performance problem Message-ID: <199701141410.GAA14125@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970114132750.00a74de0@dimaga.com> from "Eivind Eklund" at Jan 14, 97 01:27:51 pm
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In some mail from Eivind Eklund, sie said: > > 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 :) if you have time/motivation, can you try IP Filter & let me know if that makes any difference vs ipfw ? tnx
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