Collanos traffic across LAN

[keithy]

Hi,

Have installed Collanos today as a test - looks very promising!

Problem I seem to be having is that all traffic between the 2 test Collanos machines is routed via the internet and not directly across the LAN.  What could be the reasons for this?

I have removed/disabled all antivirus and personal firewalls to no avail.  Ping test is good each way between the PCs.  Am using Latest version of Collanos and Java on both PCs.  The PCs are connected directly to a Netgear DG834 router.

Any useful input appreciated

TIA

Keith

[Peter Helfenstein]

Hi Keith
Sure, there must be another reason why traffic from your peers to port 9701 (or any 97xx) of the other peers is not allowed. Any settings on your router limiting traffic in the LAN?
Just to be sure: How do you monitor the traffic on your peers? There is always rendez-vous traffic on the system going through the internet. But Collanos Workplace checks the direct availability of the other peer regularly and prefers a direct connection for traffic.
Regards
Peter
 

[keithy]

Peter,

Thanks for the reply.  Maybe I'm wrong (I have to do some more testing) but the transfer between the two LAN PCs is definitely slow (as slow as if it was using broadband upstream bandwidth i.e 512k instead of 100Mb full LAN speed).  There is nothing on the network blocking port 9701 and there is no way on a Netgear DG834 to limit LAN traffic.

Maybe I need to teweak the speed settings within Collanos??

TIA

keith

[Peter Helfenstein]

Keith,
please try to adapt the settings under Tools-Preferences-Connection, you can go there to high or to individual. Under Individual you then can set your own values for the parameters under Advanced Bandwidth Settings.
My own limits for max. Uploader as well as for max. Downloader Speed are at 5000 each. I do not suffer from any problems.
There could be cases where to high settings can cause delays in transmission. That is why the predefined settings are much less aggressive. Have a try - you can still go down again.
Let me know if this helped.
Regards
Peter

[Peter Helfenstein]

Keith,
here a link to evilzenscientist's blog. Martin uses Collanos in a highspeed environment and you can see here how he sets the parameters (how he "tweaks" Collanos): http://www.evilzenscientist.com/blog/2007/01/19/tweaking-collanos-workplace/
Regards
Peter

[keithy]

Peter,

Thanks for the useful feedback.

I'll let you know how I get on

BTW the connection settingsused before was set to 'high'

Regards

keith