Weird problem. I have a firewall between my DSL and my PC/Empeg/other PCs... The firewall is plugged into a 10/100 switch.

Whenever I plug in my Empeg, my firewall starts to crawl. I am using DHCP, and the Empeg seems to come up fine and everything looks fine, except my firewall gets totally hosed... Telnetting to it is like molassas and the web interface also crawls. When I unplug the Empeg, the firewall immediately springs back to life.

I'm using a NetScreen 5XP (yes, my company device).

Anyone have any ideas of what I can try?

- Jon

The empeg is 10Mbps only. It could be hosing your switch, especially if it is set to autodetect / autonegotiate. First guess...

Paul G.
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I think the DHCP client was causing problems with some dsl/cable router boxes. Maybe its the same problem you are having. Is there any way you could sneak in a static ip?

Sean

Make sure the empeg is not getting the same IP address from your dhcp server as another machine. That sounds like the sort of thing that could happen if your router and empeg where fighting over an IP.

-Mike

Shouldn't matter if the EMPEG is only 10Mbps, since the switch IS a 10/100, that is whats it's designed to do Autodetect/Autonegotiate.

but if it's doing broadcasts 10 mps, wouldn't that echo out each channel of the switch? That would then slow the network to 10 mps all over.

Murray
Go-Wit-Da-Fro

Thats depends on what type of switch it is, im running a netgear Nway 10/100 switch, each channel is independent of each other, providing true 10/100mbps per channel,
usually a switching hub works the way you describe
i.e. a 10mbps device slows all ports down to that speed.

How does your traffic look? Is the network getting pounded by some large amount of traffic. If the firewall has to discard a lot of packets that could be eating up all the CPU.

Also, is the empeg set for dhcp or static? It sounds like there is some broadcast here that is killing the firewall. Empload can also search for the empeg via ethernet broadcast.

Lets narrow it down a bit more.
The empeg only has to be plugged in? plugged in and turned on? plugged in, turned on and empload running?

when exactly does the slow down occur?