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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.

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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]

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