Fwd: Re: performance problem with my home network
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Subject: Re: performance problem with my home network
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 02:11:18 -0600
From: Stefan Srdic <linuxbox@telusplanet.net>
To: Lee Bradshaw <lee@sectionIV.com>
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 08:50, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:21:23AM -0700, joehu@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Dear network gurus,
> >
> >
> >
> > The performance is great on the linux box. The download speed is
> > 800KB/s. However, the 2nd machine (windows ME) is extremely slow.
> > The download speed is about 50KB/s. The 2nd machine is configured
> > as static IP 192.168.1.2 and uses the linux box as default gateway.
> > Does anybody know what's wrong with it? Is it a routing problem or
> > firewall/ip masquerading issue?
>
> Your routing table looks strange. You have two entries for the
> 192.168.1.0 network -- one without a gateway and one with a gateway of
> 192.168.1.3. Try removing this gateway ......
You might also want to try enabling auto IP defragmentation in the kernel. If
your using a 2.2.x series of kernel with ipchains it's recomemded to enable
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag so that your Linux router will reassemble
datagrams before retransmission.
Stef
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