[lug] PoPToP Performance

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Wed Feb 18 22:31:24 MST 2004


On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:15:10PM -0700, George Sexton wrote:
> SMB is really not the best performing protocol over limited bandwidth
> connections. In general, using file based database systems over a VPN is
> not going to perform well. Client/Server applications can perform
> reasonably in this kind of environment.

You may be fragmenting packets as they pass through the VPN.  Check your
MTU sizes.

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>



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