I have a really screwy issue presenting itself that I believe I have narrowed down to the firewall but can't imagine why. A SonicWall firewall is the primary gateway and firewall. The site is mostly Windows machines. I went to add on an el-cheapo whitebox machine with Ubuntu 9.04 to use for monitoring. After getting everything set up and installed, I noticed that my network transfers were only between 5-10KB/sec no matter where I was pulling from. I checked transfer speeds from various Windows machines and they were all pulling somewhere between 100-200KB/sec. I tried changing out network cables and putting it into different ports on the switch. No luck. Thinking I screwed myself by buying the cheapest computer I could find, I installed VMWare Server 2.0 on a Windows host that was downloading with no problems. I threw a Debian 5.0 VMWare image in there, set up networking and received the same, strangely slow transfers. The weird thing is I can pull the same Debian package from the same site down on the Windows host faster than the Debian VM guest. I've tried raising and lowering MTU with no change. I poked through the SonicWall to see if there was any weird filtering go on but they don't have most of the options licensed even. Has anyone run into this before? -- Donovan Niesen