General Questions

I recently purchased a Visara PC w/ monowall installed. the Visara PC has 1 embeded NIC (10/100) and a card with 2 gigabit ports (10/100/1000). I assigned em0 (giga 1) to be the WAN and rl0 (10/100) to be my LAN. OPT1 was configured for the 2nd port on teh giga card.

Here are my two issues:

A)  After configuring LAN2 (em1 giga port 2) to be my 2nd LAN port using the web config, I cannot seem to get any IP address. LAN2 has its own IP address, DHCP enabled, and one rule to pass any enabled. When my PC is connected to that port, i get nothing and the same thing happens if i hook up my Buffalo router. At this point, i'm not sure why this is happening even though port 1 on this 2 port gigabit interface is configured for the WAN and that works fine.

B) the 2nd issue is perhaps an easier answer. Without monowall, i just had my PC hooked up to a Buffalo router and i was getting the speed i'm paying. Between 22-30MB/sec. However, now that i have monowall installed my pc that's hooked up to LAN (rl0 or onboard 10/100 nic) only gets 11MB / sec. If i hook up my buffalo router and then my PC to the same port, i get the same speed.

Can anyone assist me with this situation?

thank you

Chris

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It seems that whatever is behind Monowall will result in slower bandwidth. This example shows the speed difference when behind the Buffalo router. Even if I have the Monowall installed between Cable modem and router, I will get half the bandwidth.

can someone explain?

Before you try anything else, get that Realtek (rl0) NIC out. It's a fact that these don't perform well - at least not with FreeBSD/m0n0wall (see e.g. http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=247/94). Your other (2 port gigabit) card seems to have Intel chips, and those are very good. Put LAN/WAN on em0/em1 and then try again.

Manuel,

Thank you for your reply. Do you think that there is a limit in the WAN to LAN speed based on my hardware? (Visara PC w/ Cyrix 266MHz CPU) Also, the rl0 NIC is an onboard NIC and I have no way to disable it using the BIOS. maybe a jumper will do it. I have to look into that.


THank you again.

Chris