Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:25:40 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slow NAT ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101011224320.21348-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20001231124602.01d21878@marble.sentex.net>
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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > I upgraded my home firewall today to sources as of last night and noticed > that traffic via NAT is rather slow. For example, an ftp from a machine > being nat'd I guess about 300Kbps. From the FreeBSD box, I get about 1Mb > on my DSL connection. If I use squid or a proper proxy, its not an > issue. This is both with the built in NAT on PPP and NATD by itself. Any > ideas as to how to track this down ? > 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 30 09:37:21 EST 2000 > Its only a CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU) with 96M of RAM. Was it that slow before the upgrade? As a workaround you can use ipnat which performs NAT in kernel-space rather than in user-space (as libalias does). --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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