[CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On 9/8/07, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
>   
>> Have you checked speed and duplex settings?
>>     
>
> All NICs on all machines involved report exactly the same:
>
>   negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>
> We've also checked ifconfig on all interfaces, and no errors, dropped
> packets, overruns, nor collisions have been recorded.
>   
You might try *not* auto-negotiating as described here:
http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Ethtool


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