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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: bad ftp speeds through nat
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:04:12 -0500
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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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