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Smoothwall/IPCop slows down network performance
If I plug in my computers directly to the router then I get the 3Mbps down and 512Mbps up.
If I plug in my computers through either Smoothwall or IPCop and use them as a proxy/gateway, then my connection drops to < 1Mbps down, but my upload still stays 512Mbps.
Is this consistent with what you guys get? Is it a hardware bottle neck? I am running Smoothwall and IPCop on a test Pentium 3 machine with 256MB of RAM. The memory never seems to peak. I believe I am using 100Mbps NIC's.
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