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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:36:08 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Performance issues with natd
Message-ID:  <200209261736.08425.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020926130244.GD2034@tiiu.internal>
References:  <007401c264bd$d97909e0$0401a8c0@win2000> <20020925220803.GC17390@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020926130244.GD2034@tiiu.internal>

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On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:02 am, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>
> All that said, even old (16bit)NE2000 clone will easily sustain
> 800+kB/s on my old 133Mhz Pentium with CPU load 20% or so. 400kB/s
> versus 100kB/s throughput difference in this particular case isn't
> matter of 3Com vs. Via NIC, I guess. I'll suggest trying out
> IPFilter (ipf) and let us know of the results.

Yeah, and I run ipfirewall/divert/natd on PII-300's between xl0 and fxp0 
and have no thruput problems. I don't remember what or if he said his 
firewall ruleset was like, or if it was "open". The difference between 
his system and my systems is a built-for-cheap Rhine chipset NIC.

Rhythm is important in TCP/IP. When all the rowers stroke in unison then 
the boat moves fast and smooth. When one rower strokes to a different 
drum then the ride is rougher. Ssh via terminal on MacOS X to FreeBSD 
sshd is bursty and slow to update the terminal window when connected 
thru my ipfw/FreeBSD router. Better Telnet With SSH under Classic is 
slick and smooth. Scp in the terminal window has excellent thruput. The 
burstyness of ssh is due to conflicting rhythms of the schedulers on 
the remote end, firewall, and the MacOS client end. And I think the 
same sort of thing is happening in this thread.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
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