Re: Slow file sharing performance

Allan Latham wrote:
> Hi James
> 
> the problem is that the laptop is sending the icmp for port unreachable on the 
> smb dgram port - or better said I am concerned that this is the last thing we 
> see before all activity stops.
> 
> Set up the normal configuration i.e over dial up and cipe.
> 
> Confirm with "netstat -antup" that you have the samba listening on all the 
> ports it should - particularly the udp dgram port (138).
> 
> Confirm that you are not blocking this port with "iptables -L -v -n"
> 
> Is there anything in the samba configuration which restricts connectivity 
> to/from specific hosts/nets?
> 
> The direct connection test means that a lot of samba must be working - the 
> main differences (beside speed) are the use of eth0 on the laptop rather than 
> ppp0 and cipcb0. 

CIPE is used in all cases.  The only connection into my firewall is via
eth0, no matter which method I'm using.
> 
> The results I saw do not indicate a flood in one direction which does not get 
> through - also the packet sizes are small and this isn't an mtu problem.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Allan
> 
> On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:54, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>I have just tried running my vpn through a direct connection via switch
>>to my firewall, so that it runs at full 100 Mb.  I can now access the
>>file shares with no problem.  This would indicate to me that the VPN is
>>functioning correctly and the problem is likely due to the great
>>bandwidth difference, as a result of going through the dial up
>>connection to a 100 Mb network.  I wonder what can be done about that?
>>
>>tnx jk
> 
> 
> 
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