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Installation and Upgrades / zentyal-pptp

« on: March 07, 2016, 07:04:18 am »

Apologies if this question has been answered already. Can anyone point me into the right direction if I want to install and setup pp2p/l2tp on zentyal 4.2. I tried to install zentyal-pptp and it was not available. I am guessing its a no go in the current release. Is there any substitute package that works?

For example if I install pptpd would it work with current version of zentyal or will the manual settings make the files incompatible with the remaining functionality? Help is appreciated.

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Other modules / Weird throughput measurements

« on: March 04, 2016, 05:52:52 pm »

I have been testing in a controlled environment my new setup with Zentyal 4.2 before I switch my older Asus RT-N16. I have been doing all sorts of measurements with both iPerf and file copies and I get wierd but consistent behavior. The LAN to WAN throughput measures 340mbps. It clocks same with both iperf and file copies from a test PC plugged in the LAN part to a server that is plugged in the WAN subnet. At the beginning I though it was a driver issue with my realtek ethernet adaptor cause this one is Gigabit since the atom CPU in the box was literally cruising at 0%. Right at the point where I accepted the reality that this is the max that i can do with this box I tested the reverse throughput namely WAN subnet server to LAN (test PC). To my surprise this clocked at 740mbps with again the CPU cruising and not showing any load whatsover. What gives ? Am I missing something ... I was surprised that LAN to WAN clocks slower than WAN to LAN. Is there any traffic shaping default values somewhere in the configs that I need to change, it shouldn't be happening really. Let me also add that my PC has a single ethernet adapter and I am using VLANS to get the WAN and LAN interfaces.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Traffic Shaping missing?

« on: February 29, 2016, 06:39:02 pm »

Yeah i feel this is an important piece these days and most importantly going forward. Now more than ever ISP providers are enforcing data caps. Gone are the days of infinite bandwidth. I started looking at Zentyal because of the nickel-and-diming that Comcast has put in place on a byte per byte. I wanted to set up an ubuntu box and use zentyal as my router, so I was bummed to find out that support for traffic shaping is discontinued. I wonder what happened though, was it because it was unstable or because not many people were using it?

I frankly am reading the forums now just for this piece. I hope this will change in the upcoming releases. Regards, -G