Re: BUG REPORT: Massive performance drop in routing throughput with

[Maciej Soltysiak]

> there seems to be a real serious problem with 2.4.21, routing through two
> ethernet-devices. After 24 hours of a routing-only box the throughput from
> ethernet a to ethernet b decreased to something around 4-100 kByte/sec (100
> Mbit network 2 cards ns83820). I had to drop using 2.4.21 on this box because
> of this. 2.4.20 is flawless on the machine and ran for around 100 days before
> without any troubles. Going back to 2.4.20 cured it.
Are you using any netfilter patch-o-matic patches?
Does it also affect eg. ssh latency even on LAN ?

Since I switched my processor from Intel do Amd, I have been experiencing
similar but after longer periods of time than yours.

I am also using VIA chipset, maybe it's a hardware driver problem.

Regards,
Maciej