On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:08:57PM +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to tune the network speed of OpenBSD box for high bandwidht, and > high latency. > The box is connected to a 155MBit Internet uplink. > > Hosts I have here next to me: > An old OpenBSD 4.4 box, used as server firewall, in front of a Linux http > server. > A new OpenBSD 5.0 box, used as http server. > A Linux OpenSUSE 11.2 box, used as http server. > > Further I have: > A Linux based VM in Canada, which I use as client. > and using OpenBSD mirror artifiles.org as reference host. > > First tests with the OpenBSD 4.4 firewall:
I got lost in the subsequent description of events, and came away with the impression that while you shuffled the clients and http servers around you did not change the firewall. Is this correct? If so, upgrading the firewall to 5.0 or -current is the easiest action likely to improve performance. .... Ken
