[coLinux-users] Re: TAP performance issues?

[Martin K. <ka...@po...>]

Hi,

it could be true that your connection is slowed down, but not that you 
can't use colinux's networking feature :-)
You can still use M$ Loopback driver and use pcap to connect to this 
connection. PCap is slower than TAP, but it works. It shouldn't slow 
down your connection. The question is how would you like to route this 
connection, if you need that.
My connection setup is one Loopback for communication with host and one 
real NIC for lan/internet. it works perfectly. For local X Win I use 
TAP, but you probably won't.

Regards,
Martin

Conan Ford wrote:
> I've noticed that when the TAP-32 driver that colinux comes with is 
> installed, after a couple days of uptime I start to experience terribly 
> degraded network performance.  On www.broadbandreports.com/stest , I get 
> around 220 kbps down/128 kbps up.  When I uninstall the TAP driver, I 
> get around 2000 kbps down/ 512 kbps up.  I'm on a cable modem with a 
> theoretical maximum of 10 Mbps down/768 kbps up.  Anyone else 
> experienced this issue?  Unfortunately it makes it impossible for me to 
> use the networking capabilities of colinux.