On 3 Dec 2004 at 13:57, Shawn Wright wrote: > On 3 Dec 2004 at 12:22, Daniel Chemko wrote: > > > The Speed problems may not be isolated to your CPU. You'll want to make > > sure your conntrack table isn't getting full, and that conntracks are > > safely getting expired from your system. Are you using a custom kernel, > > or a stock distro one? > Just to let you know, the problem has finally been located - a misplaced rate limit was in effect, which had the effect of limiting new connections from us to the net. A misunderstanding on my part, pointing out but Tom on the shorewall list. I'm happy to report the old PPro200 is back in service (for now) happily running along - it's passed about 1Gb in the past 40 minutes without breaking a sweat, and is nice and quick. (a new server is still in the works though...) Thanks! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Shawn Wright, I.T. Manager Shawnigan Lake School http://www.sls.bc.ca swright@xxxxxxxxx