Post by bittwiddler on Dec 17, 2020 0:39:45 GMT
Hello SmallWall Gurus,
I am seeing very interesting behavior on one of my networks. I am running SmallWall in front of a Netgear ProSafe switch and a couple of APs. One AP is Ubiquity and the other is Cisco running DDWRT.
The behavior is that 4-5 users who are running different Linux distros all have trouble with web browsing. They can navigate to a web page but after interacting with the page for 60-90 seconds the page becomes unresponsive and eventually hangs. Both Firefox and Chrome respond identically. There are dozens of Windows users on that network and they never have an issue. I have also noticed that sometimes Signal messages will not send on Android phones when connected to the network. When disconnected they send immediately.
If the Linux users connect to a wireless hot-spot on my phone (for testing purposes only!) they are able to surf the web without incident. The only common theme is Smallwall. I have connected both APs directly to my SmallWall appliance and eliminated the switch - same behaviour. I would love to hear thoughts on debugging this. I have run a number of Wireshark and Fiddler traces without seeing anything obvious.
All the best!
I am seeing very interesting behavior on one of my networks. I am running SmallWall in front of a Netgear ProSafe switch and a couple of APs. One AP is Ubiquity and the other is Cisco running DDWRT.
The behavior is that 4-5 users who are running different Linux distros all have trouble with web browsing. They can navigate to a web page but after interacting with the page for 60-90 seconds the page becomes unresponsive and eventually hangs. Both Firefox and Chrome respond identically. There are dozens of Windows users on that network and they never have an issue. I have also noticed that sometimes Signal messages will not send on Android phones when connected to the network. When disconnected they send immediately.
If the Linux users connect to a wireless hot-spot on my phone (for testing purposes only!) they are able to surf the web without incident. The only common theme is Smallwall. I have connected both APs directly to my SmallWall appliance and eliminated the switch - same behaviour. I would love to hear thoughts on debugging this. I have run a number of Wireshark and Fiddler traces without seeing anything obvious.
All the best!
Things will really get fun when we have to do multi-gig!