Are you NATing thru this connection?  If so, when you stop Shorewall you stop 
sharing the connection.

Bill


On 3/3/2016 1:37 PM, Eddie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While investigating a streaming issue in my network, I was surprised to see a 
> run of Speedtest showing my download speed at 
> around 85Mbps, which is less than half the speed I am supposed to get from my 
> ISP, 200Mbps.  Running a few tests, it appears 
> (on the surface) that Shorewall is throttling this down, because if I turn it 
> off, then I get my advertised 200Mbps.
>
> This is running on a Nethserver install connected directly to my cable modem. 
>  Nethserver is based on CentOS 6.7 and runs 
> Shorewall 4.6.4.3.  The Traffic Shaping option offered by Nethserver is 
> disabled.
>
> Here is the console log of my Speedtest runs, plus I have attached the output 
> from "shorewall dump".
>
> |[root@NethServer ~]# ./speedtest_cli.py Retrieving speedtest.net 
> configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... 
> Testing from Time Warner Cable (76.91.205.244)... Selecting best server based 
> on latency... Hosted by Time Warner Cable (Los 
> Angeles, CA) [17.74 km]: 9.372 ms Testing download 
> speed........................................ Download: 83.91 Mbit/s 
> Testing upload speed.................................................. 
> Upload: 23.16 Mbit/s [root@NethServer ~]# shorewall 
> stop > /dev/null [root@NethServer ~]# ./speedtest_cli.py Retrieving 
> speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net 
> server list... Testing from Time Warner Cable (76.91.205.244)... Selecting 
> best server based on latency... Hosted by Time 
> Warner Cable (Los Angeles, CA) [17.74 km]: 9.508 ms Testing download 
> speed........................................ Download: 
> 229.21 Mbit/s Testing upload 
> speed.................................................. Upload: 22.14 Mbit/s 
> [root@NethServer ~]# 
> ./speedtest_cli.py Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving 
> speedtest.net server list... Testing from Time Warner 
> Cable (76.91.205.244)... Selecting best server based on latency... Hosted by 
> Time Warner Cable (Los Angeles, CA) [17.74 km]: 
> 10.578 ms Testing download speed........................................ 
> Download: 230.89 Mbit/s Testing upload 
> speed.................................................. Upload: 23.26 Mbit/s 
> [root@NethServer ~]# shorewall start > /dev/null 
> [root@NethServer ~]# ./speedtest_cli.py Retrieving speedtest.net 
> configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... 
> Testing from Time Warner Cable (76.91.205.244)... Selecting best server based 
> on latency... Hosted by Time Warner Cable (Los 
> Angeles, CA) [17.74 km]: 9.778 ms Testing download 
> speed........................................ Download: 80.58 Mbit/s 
> Testing upload speed.................................................. 
> Upload: 23.16 Mbit/s [root@NethServer ~]#|
>
> Any ideas ??
>
> Cheers.
>
>
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