Re: Internet slow down related to the firewall

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:40 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
> > 	How can the firewall cause the speed to be good for 2 or 3 seconds
> > (1.5Mb) and then fall to 30Kbit?  Anyone?
> 
> There is actually rate limiting stuff in iptables, but presumably you
> would know if you had enabled it.
> 
> You don't specify what kinds of "internet" access you tried, was it just
> http or you saw the same problem all over?
> 
> I would re-enable the firewall, confirm the problem comes back and then
> post the results of
> 
> iptables -L -n
> 
> and the early part of
> 
> tcpdump
> 
> while you try to make a transfer that is affected.
> 
> -Andy
> 
I am having just this type of problem on my F6 system and I have no
iptables.

I discovered the problem was a defective internet connector.
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