On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:48:06PM -0500, Gene ENonymous wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I am not an expert by any means, but I run almost your exact same set up!
> 
> My hardware is a P3-300 w/512M and I have no issues at all. Basically
> I get the same ping times from my nat box as I do from machines inside...
> I'm also running 2.0_stable...
> 
> I'll ask the obvious: what rules are you using? I'd like to see your
> ipf.conf and your ipnat.conf...
> 
> I'm kinda busy, but I would urge you to join both the mailing lists I've
> cc'd this message to. ipf has a web archive too.

This smells more like media errors.

He should check his duplex settings on the LAN between FW and cable modem.

-Guido