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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've set up a system this week as a firewall
connecting to ADSL via the ethernet port.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Users on the lan (its maquerading the connections)
are getting appallingly slow connections. The DNS is fast, the first few
bytes arriving quickly and get displayed by then it just stops. Eventually
everything arrives but its slower than a dialup. Ping times are just a few
milliseconds.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the third such install I've done using
Easynet and the previous connections are screaming along. I set
ip_no_pmtu_disc to 1 as this helped on a previous install and this helps a bit
and I'm convinced its something to do with large packets not getting fragmented
properly. I've even tried using a different install (RH 7.0 and Mandrake
8.0) but it makes no difference.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An ifconfig of the interfaces shows no errors on
either card (one to the hub, the other to the ADSL Modem).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Users plugged dirrectly in the back of the BT
modem/hub work fine, so I don't think its a BT/Easynet problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone else experienced similar
problems?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andy</FONT></DIV>
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