Peter Lowrie wrote:

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> Hi I hope you can shed some light on this.
>
> I installed a firewall/gateway on an AMD 1.1gHz PC with 256M RAM, 20G HDD
> RTL8139 (rtl8139too driver) as eth1 internet facing and 3Com 3C59x eth0 lan
> facing.
>
> The OS is Mandrake 8.2 being the only distro that would actually boot.
>
> Now port 80 (http) works fine so does port 25. The trouble is with port 110
> not receiving emails at proper speeds, 'tis very slow. Eth1 connects to a
> Motorola Surfboard cable modem. Here is chkconfig --list


Your server for POP3 (TCP/110) may attempt to identify the
TCP connection user with the IDENT protocol (TCP/113).

You could open the TCP port 113 for inward connections and
see if the situation changes. The security implications are
quite small, an IDENT request needs to refer to an open
TCP connection opened in the opposite direction (here: the
POP3 read at TCP/110).

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Tauno Voipio
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