Re: [9fans] auth server with two NICs

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> a bad network?

I thought so at first, but if instead of using separate /net and /net.alt
mountpoints for the two networks, I simply, as I said before,

bind -b '#l1' /net
bind -b '#I1' /net

and start auth service, etc., afterwards (so that they start only on
the external interface), then from testing last night, there is no such
lag in drawterm or dropped packets on ping. now, it could just be
the timing of things (like, when I tested, etc.)... but if I drawterm to
a remote network, it's *much* faster, and pinging around to other
things doesn't cause dropped packets.

So, I'm lead to believe that the problem is in a configuration of
two network interfaces, where the default is the internal network,
which is bound to /net, and the external network is bound to /net.alt
is there some reason or way that incoming calls could be confused,
or it might take time for the server to find the right place to reply
from? I dunno... but the performance is killing me.