[ale] New DSL throughput questions

[Eric_Brubakken at aoncons.com]

Last night I finally got the hardware from directvdsl (about an 8 week wait),
installation went smooth.  I was up an running in about 30 minutes.  But just
for grins I  went to DSLReports and did the speed test from my desktop ( Winbox
) thru my firewall and then the same test on the firewall server pc.  What
surprised me was the throughput from the desktop vs the firewall server (
ipchains) was about half.  Both nics are the same - Linksys 10/100

          Download  Upload
Desktop   529kbps   130kbps
Server         1241 kbps 170kbps

I notice that when I pinged the same site from these machines the time in ms is
about the same 99  - 102 ms.  I thought I had sniped out the info stating the
eth1 was running halfplex, but I don't see that in the info below (late night
trouble shooting - brain dead).

So basic questions -  If halfplex is the issue, where can I find info on
resetting the nic?  I'm just not sure what do next?  Sorry for the long post...

Thanks

Eric

Misc info follows:
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dmesg snipit
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14 (February 20, 2001)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:13.0
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe800, 00:A0:CC:25:36:F3, IRQ 11.
eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:12.0
eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:26:E1:5C, IRQ 10.
eth1:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.


ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:25:36:F3
          inet addr:65.185.209.105  Bcast:65.185.209.107
Mask:255.255.255.252
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:38653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:35557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:12 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:26:E1:5C
          inet addr:192.168.0.6  Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:33435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:35951 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:24
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0


ping from firewall server to oracle.com
PING oracle.com (148.87.9.44) from 65.185.209.105 : 56(84) bytes of
data.
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=0 ttl=242
time=97.533 msec
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242
time=98.402 msec
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242
time=99.882 msec
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=3 ttl=242
time=99.773 msec
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=4 ttl=242
time=99.877 msec
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=5 ttl=242
time=99.887 msec
64 bytes from bigip-www.us.oracle.com (148.87.9.44): icmp_seq=6 ttl=242
time=99.878 msec


from pc to oracle.com behind firewall
Pinging oracle.com [148.87.9.44] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 148.87.9.44: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=241
Reply from 148.87.9.44: bytes=32 time=99ms TTL=241
Reply from 148.87.9.44: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=241
Reply from 148.87.9.44: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=241

Ping statistics for 148.87.9.44:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 99ms, Maximum =  102ms, Average =  100ms


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