[geeks] My network configuration

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Problems I've noticed:
> 
> The WRT54G isn't that impressive to me. It seems to balk under heavy or
> even medium network loads and the WWW interface is often unresponsive or
> painfully slow.  It seems to really stagger when hit with a lot of
> little packets.  It's routing and NAT rules interface sucks, badly.

Considered reflashing it with DD-WRT?

> NetBSD and the Ultra 1: The only problem so far is that once in awhile,
> it will stop routing packets.  No errors, and no CPU load, it just stops
> for a bit, or packets will route really slowly.
> 
> Since it isn't a CPU load issue, I even wonder if it some kind of
> built-in governing, because it does frequently happen when it is routing
> large number of tiny packets from peer-to-peer clients.

I'd use OpenBSD in that application rather than NetBSD, but that's
mostly just individual preference.


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