Hi All,
I’m actually on the other end of the stick - I’m a developer writing some software that is being used by a retailer which needs to traverse through a router running RouterOS. Our software client currently establishes an outbound SSL connection on port 7001 to connect to our server online.
Now my problem is that the server comms seem to take about 5 seconds (on average) to establish a socket connection - from that point data transfer is like normal. The weird thing is that I’ve also tried just using lynx (Linux web browser) to access port 80 traffic (e.g. www.google.com) and it also seems to suffer from this 5 second (or so) lag.
We are currently running Debian 6.0 (kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64) on our hardware.
The interesting thing is if I run our app on a windows client using exactly the same connection it doesn’t suffer the same fate - no socket problems at all.
This leads me to believe that there is some kind of Linux / network configuration mismatch between our Debian hardware and the RouterOS hardware.
As you can probably tell I’m all out of ideas, so thought I’d see if anyone here had any thoughts / things to try?
Thanks for you time,
Aaron