[snip] > This is the strangest part, suddenly iptables works *incredibly* faster, > literally 100x faster, before I could barely check my email it was so slow. > I didn't make any changes to iptables at all either, just rearranged network > cables. I get the feeling the 3com gateway is to blame, I'd love to figure > out why. It looks like you're an AT&T Cable customers, they recently *gasp!* fixed their DNS problems in the Minnesota area, this has resolved a lot of slow browsing issues, amoung other things (anything to do with using their DNS servers was slow, as well as connecting to other sites that try to resolve your host before allowing you to login/send mail/etc. > -David -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203