On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, The Jetman wrote: > Folks: I just installed an eval ADSL connection (1.5M/128K) yesterday. > I installed it on a dual-boot XP/FBSD box. When the DSL connection is directly > used by the XP box, I can routinely get 1.5Mb download speed, as determined > by ADSLGuide, etc. I took an essentially, unmodified FBSD partition (I added > IPFW2, DIVERT, and DUMMYNET to the kernel config) and turned it into a > NATting gateway. It worked immediately, but running the same speed tests > I got significantly and consistently lower incoming speed results (avg 400 > Kb/s). > > FWIW, my DSL provider is Verizon and I operate this in Long Island > w/ a Westell 2200 DSL router. I also use a modified version of the > rc.firewall script, but I took it out of the loop by using the open config. > The box I'm using uses a 1.1GHz Celeron w/ 128MB of SDRAM. > > I'm just confused as to why I lose SO much going thru my FBSD box and > that's essence of my question. I can live w/ *some* overhead for the sake > of using FBSD, but this is ridiculous. TIA....Jet
I'm getting 1.5 Mb over PPPoE with user space ppp on a 400 MHz Celeron with a crappy RealTek card, so you should certainly not be limited by your hardware. Do you have lots of packet collisions (check with netstat -i)? Perhaps you can try fiddling with the media/mediaopt flags to ifconfig on the interface connected to the DSL box - just in case it autonegotiation is not working at is should. $.02, /Mikko _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
