Date: 02 Apr 2002 19:57:49 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Tomasz Paszkowski <ns88@k.pl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd Message-ID: <1017795469.62290.3.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <20020403004748.GA23468@genesis.k.pl> References: <20020403004748.GA23468@genesis.k.pl>
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On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 19:47, Tomasz Paszkowski wrote: > I'am running a preety big network (about 2k users) with a private addresses. > I've been using natd + ipfw for ages and I really like it. But I've run into > performance problems. Machine with PIV 1.7Ghz can't afford translating > such a pig pool of connections (huge slow down of transfer). Does any one > have seen any patches improving natd performacne ? Isn't the correct answer to this "ipf + ipnat"? You'll never be able to get rid of the performance hit from all the context switching for NATted packets when using natd. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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