Re: Slow file sharing performance
Jon Bendtsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.cipe |
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James Knott wrote: > Jon Bendtsen wrote: > >> James Knott wrote: >> >>> I've notice that while my CIPE VPN works, that SMB and NFS access of >>> my home network from my notebook is slow. However, going the other >>> way, accessing file shares on my notebook, from my home lan is fine. >>> I'm connecting from my notebook, via dialup ISP and cable modem to my >>> home network. >>> >>> Why is this problem in only one direction? Is it due to the speed >>> difference between my home network and dial up modem? >> >> >> >> Well, i can think of 2 reasons. The most likely is that you have a >> different upload and download speed, like 2048kbits down, and 512 up. >> The other reason could be that one end is much much faster than at home. >> Suppose you have a recent notebook, then you have at least 500mhz+, if >> not 1ghz+. At home you might have your old pentium 90mhz as a cipe gw. >> Thus, when you send stuff from home, the p90 has to encrypt it, and >> when you send from your notebook that one has to encrypt it. (I'm >> guessing here that encryption takes longer time than decryption. > > > One computer is a 1.113 GHz PIII, the other is an Athlon XP 1700. I'd > suspect both ends have sufficient horsepower. Also, when watching the > data lights flash, it's apparent that the data transfer stops entirely > for quite a while. I would expect transfers to be slower due to the > dial up connection, but not stopped. The vastly slower dialup > connection would rule out the asymetrical cable modem speeds as a cause > of the problem. As I mentioned, it only happens in the one direction. > > The firewall is a 166 MHz Pentium and is running about 99% idle. Also, does the firewall run cipe? or is it the big machines? JonB -- Message sent by the [email protected] mailing list. Unsubscribe: mail [email protected], "unsubscribe cipe-l" in body Other commands available with "help" in body to the same address. CIPE info and list archive: <URL:http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html>