On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Chris Thompson
<cthompson@vp44.net> wrote:
On Fri, February 6, 2009 7:46 pm, E Frank Ball III wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:31:16PM +0100, Chris Thompson wrote:
> > >> I run two mail and web servers from my house on a DSL line. Until a
> few
> > >>
> > >> Both the servers sustain quite some traffic and (especially the
> mail)
> > >> need
> > >> to open many more connections that a mid-level router can handle.
> > >> After reading some reviews, I decided to purchase a linksys AM200
> DSL
> > >> gateway and configure it to run in half-bridge mode (so that all the
> > >> public IPs are mapped directly on the servers' network interfaces).
> > >> Unfortunately, even with the newest firmware, the linksys modem
> keeps
> > >> crashing when under load.
What is the half bridge mode? Can it be configured as full-bridge mode?
Many times, a small router crashes because they are acting as a stateful firewall. They just don't have enough memory.
However, at full load as a bridge, the ADSL throughput is still very low, about 7Mbps compared to 90Mbps of a 10/100 Ethernet. I have not seen any of them failed to pass that much raw traffic yet. You can test it just by running iperf through it to see how long it can keep up the load.
Bao