On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au> wrote: > > Hi. > > I have a company gateway that is connected to a 30/30 Fiber connection, > network termination point is a MRV OS-904. > It acts as a firewall/router for the DMZ/hosts/lans behind. > > Software: CentOS 6.9, bare minimum install, all latest patches. > Hardware: Xeon CPU, Intel server MB with two Intel PRO 1000 (e1000, > e1000e) network cards, adaptec RAID, 8GB RAM > > > On the hosts/lan behind I can happily achieve 28.8 mbs - it seems it's > being capped at that speed by the provider. > > However, on the host itself I cannot get passed 820k/s max, even if I > switch off iptables and anything else that could interfere with the > download/upload bandwidth. > > > I have no idea why this is the case - It only matters when I need to "yum > update" as the updates take 4 times longer than on the CentOS DMZ hosts > behind it - but yes, its rather annoying! > > > Where do I need to look? > What am I missing? > > > > Hi, Are you sure that your issue isn't related to the mirror that your systems are selecting ? If they are using different mirrors I would try using the fastestmirror plugin to make the gateway select the same mirror as you other host.