Re: Slow file sharing performance

[Allan Latham <alatham,AT,flexsys-group,DOT,com>]

Hi James

the problem is that the laptop is sending the icmp for port unreachable on 
the 
smb dgram port - or better said I am concerned that this is the last thing we 
see before all activity stops.

Set up the normal configuration i.e over dial up and cipe.

Confirm with "netstat -antup" that you have the samba listening on all the 
ports it should - particularly the udp dgram port (138).

Confirm that you are not blocking this port with "iptables -L -v -n"

Is there anything in the samba configuration which restricts connectivity 
to/from specific hosts/nets?

The direct connection test means that a lot of samba must be working - the 
main differences (beside speed) are the use of eth0 on the laptop rather than 
ppp0 and cipcb0. 

The results I saw do not indicate a flood in one direction which does not get 
through - also the packet sizes are small and this isn't an mtu problem.

Best regards

Allan

On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:54, James Knott wrote:
> I have just tried running my vpn through a direct connection via switch
> to my firewall, so that it runs at full 100 Mb.  I can now access the
> file shares with no problem.  This would indicate to me that the VPN is
> functioning correctly and the problem is likely due to the great
> bandwidth difference, as a result of going through the dial up
> connection to a 100 Mb network.  I wonder what can be done about that?
>
> tnx jk