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Well Bryan too bad if you are disappointed of m0n0wall. I have several WRAP with 1.11 and some VIA mini-ITX with 1.2b5 running rock-stable. Be aware that everything in 1.2 is still beta so bugs and minor deseases are the price for cutting-edge features. I've tried in the past several firewall, like Astaro, ClarkConnect, ShoreWall,... Of course it's not only a matter of features and security but also of "taste" and m0n0wall is the only one which does not require overkill HW and is not so nitty-gritty. What else should I say ? Enjoy you ClarkConnect. Daniele Bryan Marc Schaubach wrote: > 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 fault on loading -- I guess my celeron 933 was just too outdated for 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch -- regards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniele Guazzoni Senior Network Engineer, CCNP, CCNA Ackersteinstrasse 203 CH-8049 Zurich http://www.gcomm.ch mail: daniele dot guazzoni at gcomm dot ch PGP key ID 0xA8CC16F7 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan |