> I have IP forwarding enabled and I notice an EXTREMLY slow connection rate
> between network A and network B
>
> 198.50.4.0 198.50.4.4 198.50.14.1 198.50.14.0
> networkA--------->Linux Box--------------->NetworkB
>
> Forgive the crude diagram, but when telneting from network A to network B, it
> takes about a minute to connect, and vise versa. If I telnet from the linux
> box to eighter side telnet is normal. This includes FTP, and all other
> services.
>
> Also pinging from network A to network B is normal showing no slag.
It sounds as if your problem is connection delay, not throughput.
One possible cause is that the server is performing an ident lookup on
the client, but the packets just disappear, without any reply or
rejection.
> Some thoughts, would IP_MASQUERADING causes this degragation???
Not by itself. However, any ident lookups would be performed upon the
masquerade host. If you have any firewall rules in place, you need to
take care to reject (rather than deny) connections to the ident port.
> Should I optimize as router???
No.
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