Re: Too slow connection

[John McDougald <mcdougaj@ix.netcom.com>]

Avinash, what happens if you just unplug the cable modem?  It may sound
like the same thing, but it would be interestig to know if the cable
modem is broadcasting alot of traffic through the firewall.

In order to help confirm this, you will probably have to supply the
mailing list with the firewall rule set you are using as well as the
config information of both of your ethernet interfaces, your routing
table `route -n` and possibly your resolv.conf file as well.

John
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:15, avinashss@vsnl.net wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have setup a firewall (I am just doing masquerading now) between the a cable modem and the local network. Cable modem is connected to eth1 and the eth0 connects to the local switch. When both interfaces are up, The connecting beween the firewall and a local system is too slow. As soon as I bring eth1 down
> 
> # ifdown eth1
> 
> the connection speed improves dramatically in the local network.
> 
> The two network cards are RTL 8139. The kernel version is 2.4.19-586tsc. I am using Debian GNU/Linux testing.
> 
> I tried changing both network cards but no change in speed. I also removed the masquerading rule still the same problem.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Avinash.
>