Re: bad ftp speeds through nat

[Chris Andrew <candrew@oxspring.com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 19:08, Peter Marshall wrote:
> here is the output from the netstat -ni ...
> 
> [root@radium root]# netstat -ni
> Kernel Interface table
> Iface     MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR   TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
> Flg
> eth0       1500   064374866      0      0      169244643      0      0
> 0 BMRU
> eth0:1     1500   0  698461      0      0      0  674916      0           0
> BMRU
> eth1       1500   067829304      0      0    26760844194      0      0
> 0 BMRU
> eth1:1     1500   0  698461      0      0      0  674916      0      0
> 0 BMRU
> eth2       1500   0  698461      0      0      0  674916      0      0
> 0 BMRU
> lo        16436   0      54      0      0      0      54      0      0
> 0 LRU
> 
> and no my firewall is not a P-75  ... :)  it is a PIII 850 with 512 MB RAM.

I'm presuming the speeds are poor from your LAN:

Are the transfer speeds OK if you FTP from the firewall?

How do you address the FTP server from your LAN, are you doing any
DNAT/SNAT, or simply routing?

Are transfer speeds always poor from the LAN regardless of which PC
initiates the FTP connection?

What does mii-tool & the above netstat tell you on:
  (a) the ftp server
  (b) the firewall
  (c) LAN workstation

In an attempt to diagnose a failing NIC, try pulling down the speed on
either or both of the NICs on the firewall DMZ interface and FTP server,
using:
mii-tool -F 10baseT-FD eth0

See man mii-tool for available speeds/duplex, etc.

Regards,
Chris