Hi Darko, I run back to back networks with ISA and don't' have the slowness problem. I do sometimes receive pages that are garbled and look like binary representations of the pages and or items that I was trying to download. After I refresh my page that disappears. Not sure if this is related to caching on ISA or not. The other issue is how the front end ISA is using DNS to get pages or to your backend ISA. And then again from your backend ISA out to the front-end ISA and external network. Thomas showed me this link which helped on speed http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/isa/2004/plan/disablenameresolution.mspx and DNS resolution. Thank you, Joseph _____ From: Ball, Dan [mailto:DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:41 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: Strange performance http://www.ISAserver.org I don't know why this happens, but I have seen it happen here. In fact, I had an open support case with Microsoft at the time about this, and sent them diagnostic logs while it was happening, which they are still perusing. _____ From: Darko Kljajic [mailto:darko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:42 To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Strange performance http://www.ISAserver.org Hi to all, I have installed four ISA Servers 2004 in back to back configuration. (test prepare to go live) I have two downstream isa servers with NIC Teming for every network and NLB only for Internal network (caching servers) + two upstream isa servers also with NLB and Teaming. Everything works fine (almost perfectly) ... until ISAs suddenly get lazy. ISAs retrive sites so slowly that everyone start to complain. I look up in router log (router to internet provider) and I saw that our link have always spare 100 kbytes/s. So I supposed that network bandwidth isn't a problem. I also look in ISAs performance counters and everything looks fine (COLD). I do all the tuning for operating systems (3GB switch ...) and I give downstream ISAs to use 50% of memery for caching. Does anyone have a clue what is happening?? Hardware configuration (4 servers): 2 x 3.06GHz 4GB RAM 256 MB SCSI Controler 3 x 36GB Hard Disks 4 (6) NIC PS: NLB works with Layer3 Switch Darko Kljajić Administrator for operating systems IT Department tel: +381 11 201 1567 mob: +381 64 811 1655 e-mail: darko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:darko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> =========================== Delta Banka A.D. Milentija Popovića 7b, Belgrade Serbia & Montenegro site: www.deltabanka.co.yu <http://www.deltabanka.co.yu/> =========================== ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: dball@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: josephk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx