Donovan wrote: > A SonicWall firewall is the primary gateway and firewall. The site is > mostly Windows machines. I went to add on an el-cheapo whitebox > machine with Ubuntu 9.04 to use for monitoring. After getting > everything set up and installed, I noticed that my network transfers > were only between 5-10KB/sec no matter where I was pulling from. I > checked transfer speeds from various Windows machines and they were > all pulling somewhere between 100-200KB/sec. > > I tried changing out network cables and putting it into different > ports on the switch. No luck. Thinking I screwed myself by buying > the cheapest computer I could find, I installed VMWare Server 2.0 on a > Windows host that was downloading with no problems. I threw a Debian > 5.0 VMWare image in there, set up networking and received the same, > strangely slow transfers. The weird thing is I can pull the same > Debian package from the same site down on the Windows host faster than > the Debian VM guest. > > Has anyone run into this before? Curious. I've not used a SonicWall, but I'd guess things to look at next would be selective acknowledgment, TCP MSS size, and maybe window scaling and congestion avoidance. -- Peter Corbett peter at corbettdigital.net