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  From: Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : <eljumad@internode.on.net>
        < linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:57:53 +0900

Re:

Are you using pppoe? What software on esmith?

If so you may find the client MTU needs to be adjusted to bring it down
below 1472.

Good Luck


At 12:44 1/04/03 +0930, eljumad@internode.on.net wrote:
>Hi All,
>A quick pick of your brains regarding possible causes please:
>
>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.
>
>My feeling is that it is the ADSL line or the modem, as they have already had
>troubles with the line in the past (ISP tested it from their end and
confirmed).
>On the ADSL modem (DSL-300), the ethernet and ADSL connection lights flash
furiously
>all the time, instead of staying on consistently.
>
>I can ping out of this e-smith box, either internally to hosts on the LAN or
>externally to the internet. Can also establish telnet connections to the
box's
>mail ports from an external location. The e-smith resolves names to IP
addresses
>fine.
>
>Their box is also set up the same as one we have here and with the same
version
>of e-smith (5.1.2), and we don't have any problems (though their symptoms
sound
>like ours when the line is playing up).
>
>My question is this: is there anything else that I can test in the e-smith to
>eliminate it as a factor in the lack of speed?
>The ISP help desk has suggested that the client unplug their PCs from the
network
>and then plug them in one at a time to check if there is a PC causing the
fault.
>
>
>Cheers
>Julian 
>
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