Actual bandwidth between sites is very good at about 1mbit and latency is around 100ms. FTP traffic
through the IPSEC tunnel hits at least 700k or so...

Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Sharp" <leesharp at hal dash pc dot org>
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:32:27 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] SMB over IPSEC...

Tim Nelson wrote:
> They are able to find the server and access it's shares but opening a file... even small ones like
20k... takes FOREVER.

Sniff the link...  SMB is a noisy and inefficient protocol.  You fixed 
the name resolution, which is a problem for Windows on any routed 
network, but you can't fix the bandwidth.

			Lee

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