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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:20:04 +1000
From: Chris Keladis <ckeladis@gmail.com>
To: Minnesota Slinky <mnslinky@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How many hosts can utilize one NAT server?
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:38:44 -0500, Minnesota Slinky 

<mnslinky@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering how many hosts can a single NAT server server?  I
> couldn't find it on the net, although I know it's there somewhere.

This would depend on the type of NAT being done, ie 1:1 static or PAT
(aka overloading).

If the latter, you can only support (around) 65,535 sessions or the
size of a 16bit port number.




Regards,

Chris.