Re: [sailer@bnl.gov: Network Throughput]
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:10:39AM -0500, tps@unslept.com wrote:
> I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This
> machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the
> box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do
> I tune the NICs to handle the streams better? There are ways of doing this
> on other OSs. Right now, the box only does about 1.8Mb when it should be doing
> 80+Mb.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> PS: This is really something to do with the window size and WAN latency.
> The box does well when traffic goes in one NIC and out the other, as long
> as the end point is local When it hits the WAN, it all dies. Traffic not
> going through the box just flies rignt along.
you may wish to modify the MTU of the interfaces
man ifconfig
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