I have a pptp client connection (ppp1) on a gateway. If I directly using curl --interface ppp1 to download a file, I get full download speed very quickly (2m/s). But if I route my lan host to ppp1 and -o ppp1 -j MASQUERADE, running curl to download the same file on the host starts very slow (less than 100k/s), then the speed *slowly* increases(about 50k per second), until it reach about 1.8m/s. While downloading the file on the host, the gateway's cpu usage never reach 1 from the output of top. If I directly establish the pptp client connection on host, I quickly get full speed again. I wonder what might slow down the network when the packets are forwarded. I'm currently guess it's the masquerade target, but I'm not sure. How do I test it? If it's masquerade, is it possible to speed it up? I'm using iptables v1.4.21, kernel v3.18.14. Thanks in advance.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
