On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:50:45 +0100, debianuser.thegrue wrote: > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall.
What kind of firewall? Iptables rules or some kind of commercial appliance? > When we start a download on the "newer" machines (kernel 2.6.32-5), the > download starts fast (~3M/s), then quickly gets slower after about 10 > or 20 seconds and soon stalls completely or proceeds at ~3 Byte/s or > something like that. > > On the older linux machines with kernel 2.6.26-2, or any other > machines/OSes, everything is fine. Computers with older kernels are running the same OS version than machines with newer kernels? I mean, is the kernel version the only difference between the machines that behave okay or are another factors that come to play? > Until recently, I thought that is a pure firewall and maybe debian > related problem, but had (have) no clue why. Now we just found out that > it is independent of the distribution, but depends on the kernel > version. It might still be some firewall problem (because I never heard > of this problem outside of our company). > > Have you any idea what's wrong? I would try first to remove (not in the sense of "eliminating" but "bypass") the firewall to discard the problem is generating from there. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.24.17.03...@gmail.com
