December 23, 200916 yr I was using Midnight Commander to copy some files between disks and I noticed that my Firewall (Commodo) was going nuts. I was getting about 16 MB/s with MC, but when I killed my Windows firewall the speed went up to 20 MB/s. I would have thought that MC would spawn a task in Linux that whould not affect the network? What's going on?
December 24, 200916 yr Likely its because your Firewall is not a firewall... its a do all security applicance. Typically these are jack of all trades and master of none resulting in botle necks and dodgy false positive signature matches. Essentially its just one of those things just live with it
December 31, 200916 yr I'm assuming you were running a Telnet or PuTTY session on a Windows machine? MC would then be running strictly on the Linux box, and the transfers would be local to your server, NOT across the network. The only thing running on the windows machine is the Telnet or PuTTY console, so that is the only thing the firewall could be hindering. And all the Telnet/PuTTY console is doing is relaying keystrokes and output, terminal screen changes back to you. If you are using Telnet, try PuTTY, and vice versa, to see if the other is affected the same way by your firewall.
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