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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:53:49 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        veedee@c7.campus.utcluj.ro
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large scale NAT - problem resolved
Message-ID:  <20040128205349.GH11253@FreeBSD.org.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20040128204603.GA19311@c7.campus.utcluj.ro>
References:  <1075275264.401766007d839@isp.polynet.lviv.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0401280015070.176-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20040128204120.GF11253@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040128204603.GA19311@c7.campus.utcluj.ro>

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:46:03PM +0200, veedee@c7.campus.utcluj.ro wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:41:20PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:15:56AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > >=20
> > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Andriy Korud wrote:
> > >=20
> > > >=20
> > > > Hi,
> > > > At last I've managed to build stable NAT on FreeBSD box for 34Mbit =
link and
> > > > ~2000 clients (cable modem network).
> > > > At full speed (34Mbit) CPU usage is 0% and system load is 0.0 :-)
> > > >=20
> > >=20
> > > It'd be really interesting to see how natd would handle such a load..=
=2E.
> > >=20
> > You must be kidding.  ;)
>=20
> Agreed. NATd "crashes" with 400 clients on AMD Athlon 900Mhz. :( ipnat
> works fine.
>=20
> This raises a question... is there any point in still having natd? (don't
> throw rocks at me please, I'm just asking). Or maybe it's still being used
> for servers with less clients to nat?
> =20
If your Internet connection is 128kbit/s, it can cope with it nicely.
One day I will write the ng_nat(4) module.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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