Samba Lan + Wireless Bridge = slow?

[Shiryou]

Hi. It seems that Samba is just a slow thing at the best of times, but I get the feeling something odd is going on when it comes to my network setup. Im getting a slow speed over the 100 mbit connection, but that aside, heavy copying on the lan shouldn't affect the wireless. Heres out router, server setup:

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Server:

eth0 -> Internet cable (3Com Onboard)
eth1 -> bridged Lan cable (NForce forcedeth)
eth2 -> bridged wlan cable (Some PCI Realtek card)
br100 -> Bridges eth1 and eth2
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Our server is setup exactly like the home router guide on the gentoo page with the exception of the bridge. We use wondershaper as well. Now a heavy copy on eth1 will slow down eth2 quite a bit. This sounds like a side effect of the bridge but then, samba is always a bit odd. Any ideas? I may not have posted enough stuff i must admit. Heres the ifconfig output:

[egberts]

Because of bridging setup (I have the exact same setup as you), every packet that you got between a LAN-based PC and your SAMBA server is threaded twice between user-kernel land.

I'm betting you got a 1.2 GHz machine or less, because then that setup will really choke at 100Mbps link.

Wondershaper... may not play nice with all the wonderful QoS things that have been introduced to Linux 2.6.

I recommend you investigate Class-based queuing instead in the iptables.