"Anoymous 1" <nobody@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>
> A coworker and I have the July CTP of Vista installed.
> Connections to servers on the same subnet are very,
> very speedy.
>
> However, when we try to connect to anything through
> our router, the connections are unusably slow. The
> same goes for connections to a Linux server with a
> rather aggressive configuration of Netfilter (via
> iptables).
>
> I find a post ("A painful Vista networking bug",
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=10) that seems to be
> related, but I can find little else.
>
> ??
>
I've had issues with the windows firewall and linux MTU setting before, and
this kind of sounds similar to that. At home I have a linux firewall and it
does some fancy traffic shaping and such so I can 'promise' traffic and
latency for certain 'important' things like battlefield2. I also have a
gigbit switch that supports jumbo frames. The combination of jumbo frames,
the windows firewall and the linux firewall/traffic shaping, didn't do so
hot. If I wanted to have the windows firewall on I had to disable jumbo
frames on the switch, and lower my MTU on the linux box to 1400... Because
you are going through a router to your linux box, I would bet you are
experiencing something similar. try disabling the windows firewall...
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