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  From: Michal Mienik <Michal.Mienik@stratco.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:58:19 +0930

Re:

From: <eljumad@internode.on.net>
> We have a p3 800 with 256MB Ram box running e-smith as server and gateway.
Realtek
> 8139 NICs.
> Recently upgraded it from a dial-up connection to ADSL and added the
second
> NIC to do so. The client has complained that often the speed is very slow,
even
> worse than when we had them on the dial-up. This speed loss is
inconsistent
> though - client PCs accessing the intenet will often load webpages quickly
and
> download files rapidly at 26kb/s, but then at other times hardly be able
to
> load a web page properly.

Have they checked the MTU settings on the client PCs behind the gateway?  I
had a similar problem with my Linux gateway when the Win9x/NT boxes sitting
behind it had the default MTU of 1500.  This caused some webpages to load,
others not, inconsistent behaviour all around.  An MTU of 1492 (or maybe a
bit lower) set in the registry fixed the problem.

</brain picking>


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