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Hi I'm using m0n0wall since almost 2 years, I believe so! (When things go smooth, you definitively forget when you setup something !) Well, to make a short story, I've moved house and I did plan to setup a new network @ home for a few PC. My old firewall PC (ibm pc300 gl) it looks too bulky & big to fit in the new study room. So I went to dedust a spare Soekris 4501 that I reserved last time in the eventuality. I did setup everything but I saw a slower response in webgui interface and few other minor annoying things. The IBM is using 2x 3com PCI card (xl0/xl1) just for LAN/WAN (PPPoE over ADSL modem/bridge) Its CPU is a normal Intel Pentium 133 and Ram is 64MB Edo. No HDD/No CDROM, just a 16MB CF card with IDE reader! Everything else (EPP/COM ports/ etc) disable from BIOS. The Soekris, well, we know that is aligned as CPU/RAM configuration (133mhz CPU/64MB ram) with another CF16MB (same brand as for the one used in the IBM) and BIOS is the latest one from soekris. To avoid making the SWITCH (16ports 10/100) confused with MAC/IP, I did setup the Soekris as 192.168.0.2 while the IBM 192.168.0.1 Both connected in the same time, and none of them connected to internet (WAN connection down). Configuration: exactly 101% for the both. No NAT/Firewall rules exept for the default one, No DHCP server, no traffic shaper. Just basic default. Then I realized, after I did try to connect to the WebGUI (192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.2) that response is much much slower on the Soekris while in the IBM is much prompt. I didn't check the CPU utilization as there was no traffic to check it, but ram was almos there (32% for both machines). I did investigate further and bring the 2 machines to my brother house as he has fixed IP ADSL. (I did experience difference with dynamic IP assigned from ISP, as some range of them are slightly slower for, to me unknown reasons) I did try to download a file [1] from our local company's ftp server (same ISP) (also in fixed IP) with both machines (IBM & Soekris) and I did realize there is a difference in the download speed. While with the IBM I can reach constantly 103KB/sec, the soekris can shifting from 83 (min) to 93KB (max) without be stable. I did repeat this test for almost 4 times with same results! [1] Windows XP service pack 2 for 100MB++ Well, the speed is not so important for me, but my main concern is.... why this difference if the m0n0 configuration is the same and if the CPU/RAM are aligned between the 2 machines? I'm not complaining about soekris, please bear in mind, as some of friends are using also, but afraid to find other small surprise especially when using VoIP, etc... Curios to hear your hopinions & comments. To all of you, a good day David |