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Hello m0n0wall users, I am not here to flame, I am not here to berate anything.. just to describe to you my series of events that led me to giving up on m0n0wall.. First off, I have been a very happy m0n0wall user for a long time now.. I am a heavy P2P user with a personal LAN of about 6 computers, one of which uses P2P a lot. I switched TO m0n0wall because my crappy d-link router crashed at least once a day because of the packet load. With that said, I have had a good relationship with the ease and functionality of m0n0wall. So from there, I have been using the beta's up until 1.2b5 .. when I upgraded to b6 my computer would give a seg fault on loading -- I guess my celeron 933 was just too outdated for it?? oh well.. not to worry, I liked b5.. it worked great until.... The link to the forum with a description of the problem and the solution is here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313471.html I initially thought it was my AMD64 box running Gentoo, but come to find out, the packet loss was due to m0n0wall. This 24% packet loss might be fine for everyday surfing, but to me running heavy P2P apps, it is detrimental... P2P apps like Azureus send a tremendous amount of packets on one port to the router at once.. and this is the crux of the problem. My main machine does indeed run a gigabit card and I have had everybody I know run that ping command.. some on the stable m0n0wall version and some on beta versions and it all resulted in a 20-24% packet loss for EVERYBODY.. from someone using a 400mhz machine to even better than my 933 celeron with 512MB of ram! So, test it yourself.. from a LAN computer run ping -f -c 100000 192.168.x.x and see what happens.. do it to another computer in your lan and then to the m0n0wall box.. I bet you will find that m0n0wall limits the connection speed and actually drops packets if they come too fast. So I switched to ClarkConnect and now when I run the ping command, I get 0% packet loss.. I talked about it to a few people and they suggest that I post to the m0n0wall list just to let you know what my experiences are... Now there might well be a fix for this, but alas, for me -- it is too late. I have switched and have a lot more control over the system than I had before as ClarkConnect has integrated mrtg and I even installed gkrellmd to monitor things from my local machine.. I know that this is COMPLETELY out of the scope of the philosophy of m0n0wall and I absolutely respect that.. it is not a flame in ANY way.. I appreciate your efforts and wish this project the best.. I just wanted to post my experiences. |