From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 8 22:53:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA27893 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from imssys.imssys.com ([199.171.16.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA27888 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from imssys by imssys.imssys.com ; 9 MAR 96 01:52:51 EDT Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 01:52:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Mark F. Patterson" X-Sender: mpatters@imssys To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: slow network response Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello all, I'm just getting started as a small ISP (I hear ya... 'oh no another newbie'). Anyway... I seem to be having (I assume) some difficulty with my network. Here's why I think so: If I ping the main server (running FreeBSD 2.1) from another host on an outside network, the round trip time seems to be way-high (900-999ms). If I try to ping the main-server from another host, a Linux-box, on the local network, the times still appear to be high (700-800ms). Now here's what's intersting, any pings to or from Linux box, inside or outside the local network (except for the main-server) appear to be rather speedy (inside 0.1-0.8ms, outside 60-80.0ms ranges). Doing most anything from the main-server across the network seems awful _slow_. I have a 56k-FR connection, the main-server is FreeBSD2.1 with no load on it; the Linux-box on the local network is serving as the gateway. Any ideas? Could my routing be hosed, although I can reach other remote sites? Any help, or direction pointing would be appreciated. Thanks! -Mark