Just in case anyone has a similar problem and since I never got an  
answer from the list, I thought I would share what fixed the problem.

Turned out to be a NIC issue. The 3Com NICS in my m0n0wall were set  
to auto-negotiate speed and plugged into HP Procurve Switch ports  
that were set to auto-negotiate as well. Going in and setting both  
the switch and the cards to 100-T Full Duplex fixed it. We are back  
to less than 2 minutes for a big copy now.

Thanks for a great firewall.

On Jan 8, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Glen Page wrote:

> I just replaced our freesco with a m0n0wall (pc with CD/floppy  
> combo). All works very nicely except...
> machines on my LAN (10.5.x.x) which used to connect quickly via AFP  
> (macintosh) to servers on the WAN (216.204.237.x) still connect but  
> they take FOREVER to do anything that requires data transmission.
> As a test.. I did a copy from 2 machines on my WAN VLAN  and it too  
> less than 2 minutes. The same copy from  a computer on my LAN -  
> VLAN to a computer on my WAN VLAN takes 2 0 3 hours!!!
>
> Anybody got any ideas where to look...?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Glen Page
> Technology Systems Administrator
> ThetNet
>
> Passwords are like underwear. You shouldn’t leave them out where  
> people can see them. You should change them regularly. And you  
> shouldn’t loan them out to strangers.
>
>

Glen Page
Technology Systems Administrator
ThetNet

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