[rescue] Netra as a router/firewall for home use

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:49:52AM -0400, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>   
>> Is it a Ultra 1 Enterprise (U1E) ?  or regular Ultra 1 ?
>>     
>
> It's a 1E/170, with 5 hme interfaces (1 onboard, 4 on the SBus qfe).
>
>   
>> If you have a U1E... then see if you can verify if you are getting a
>> 100Mbit connection with the hme interface.  The fact your topping out at
>> 10Mbps seems to indicate your ethernet is probably not exceeding that in
>> it's speed, and that it isn't relevant to the firewall ruleset.
>>     
>
> Indeed I am getting 100Mbps FD:
> hme0: flags=8a63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         capabilities=66<TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Rx>
>         enabled=66<TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Rx>
>         address: 08:00:20:9a:de:91
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>         status: active
>         inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe9a:de91%hme0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>
> hme4: flags=8a63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         capabilities=66<TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Rx>
>         enabled=66<TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Rx>
>         address: 08:00:20:93:5d:3b
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>         status: active
>         inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast y.y.y.y
>         inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe93:5d3b%hme4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>
> hme4 is bridged to my modem, hme0 is the LAN. The machine is running NetBSD
> 3.1.
>
>   

So much for it being 'that simple' :-)

If the firewall is turned off, do you still top out at 10Mbit ?

-- Curt

> -mj