It looks like it is slow with any type of file transfer through the firewall
.. not just ftp ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Marshall" <peter.marshall@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "netfilter"
<netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: bad ftp speeds through nat
I have not tried it with the firewall off ... yet ... however, transfer
speeds between boxes in the DMZ are fast .... I transefered a 40 MB file in
3 sec ....
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "netfilter" <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: bad ftp speeds through nat
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:56:44AM -0400, Peter Marshall wrote:
> I am not sure what is causing this ... I have an ftp server in my DMZ. I
am
> getting horrible ftp speeds ... only 200 - 300 KB/s ... I have 10/100
cards
> on both the firewall and the ftp server and they are connected with one
100
> Mb switch. If anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening I would
> appreciate the wisdom.
have you base-lined the environment? does FTP through the firewall with
no rules loaded and just IP forwarding enabled allow for significantly
higher throughput? how about a machine locally in the DMZ directly to
the FTP server, what's that throughput look like?
-j
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