Re: [Shorewall-users] Poor speeds from net to local

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

Mason Schmitt wrote:
> On June 10, 2004 09:13 am, Jason Png wrote:
> 
>>Sounds like wrong MTU settings on modem.
>>
> 
> Not if he is able to download at 600kB/s to the firewall.  As a shorewall 
> clear does not help anything, my suspicion is this is a network hardware 
> issue.  Perhaps he has a duplex mismatch issue on eth0 or perhaps eth0 is 
> flakey.  I would start by looking for errors on the switch (it it's managed) 
> or looking for errors on the nic.
> 

One might also see something useful in a tcpdump (retries, 
fragmentation-needed, etc).

-Tom
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