Dany wrote:

> Fred Weston wrote:
>
>> Dany wrote:
>>
>>> Fred Weston wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dany wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to see if m0n0wall could replace my ipcop box which has 
>>>>> been running for few years now.
>>>>> Hardware is an old Compaq Pentium 200MHz with 200MB of memory and 
>>>>> two realtek NIC, a small switch and a SMC-2655W 802.11b AP.
>>>>>
>>>>> I used the following CD image (fairly new!) :
>>>>> cdrom-pb25r595.iso
>>>>> Version: Public Beta Release 25, Build #595
>>>>> Release date: 01/17/2004
>>>>>
>>>>> Everything works fine, I really like it.
>>>>> Just after installing it if I ping the firewall from a station I 
>>>>> get "<10ms" but after let's say 20 minutes (random in fact) it 
>>>>> goes to 80-100ms. This morning it was over 900ms. In some cases I 
>>>>> can't even get the firewall webpage so I have to reboot it the 
>>>>> cold way. Names are taking longer to resolve (if they ever resolve).
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea on this performance drop over the time ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> Dany
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>> I can't think of any reason off the top of my head as to why you 
>>>> would see this behaviour.  My only suggestion would be to try 
>>>> removing everything non-essential such as the AP and switch and try 
>>>> running it for a while with just a single PC connected to it and 
>>>> see if the problem remains.  It sounds like you might be 
>>>> overloading the MAC table on your switch, but with a setup that 
>>>> small, that seems unlikely.
>>>>
>>> Today I got the problem after few hours.
>>> Ping started to give long time and then no ping at all for both lan 
>>> and wan addresses.
>>> I then disconnected the switch and AP and connected only one PC to 
>>> the firewall usign a crossover cable but that didn't solve anything.
>>>
>>> Dany
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>> In your setup, are you running ipcop and m0n0 on the same hardware?  
>> If not, perhaps you could try replacing one or both NICs.  It may be 
>> worthwhile to simply start over with m0n0 by resetting it to 
>> defaults.  Configure only your IP addresses and anything else 
>> essential for it to function and then see if you still experience the 
>> same symptoms.
>>
> same hardware,  to run ipcop I reboot with the HDD connected. For 
> monowall, i just insert the CD and floppy.
> This afternoon I restarted from scratch. I just use the DHCP server of 
> the monowall box to get my clients internet access (no fancy rules or 
> bandwidth limitation).
>
> One thing I do is to give a an pre-defined IP address based the MAC 
> address of each PC (outside the DHCP IP range).
>
> Dany
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Don't know if that can help but here is my configuration :

System: General setup
*[x] Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN

*Services: DNS forwarder
*[x] Enable DNS forwarder
[ ] Register DHCP leases in DNS forwarder

....override the results from the forwarders below.
Host     Domain     IP     Description    
ap      agora      192.168.0.50      SMC AP
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