Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:07:13 -0600 From: Brad Davis <so14k@so14k.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAT and traffic shaping Message-ID: <200404121607.13927.so14k@so14k.com> In-Reply-To: <407AA4C5.50405@wintek.com> References: <407AA4C5.50405@wintek.com>
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On Monday 12 April 2004 8:16 am, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > We have a customer (an apartment complex) who wants us to deploy a > FreeBSD box that will handle NAT for 400 to 600 machines (so figure > multiple connections per machine) and that can handle a steady 12 to 15 > Mb of ethernet traffic, both directions. I'm sure we'll also want to do > some traffic shaping. Would anyone care to offer > suggestions/recommendations/horror stories about implementing this? > Specifically, how hefty a box should we use (RAM/CPU), and which version > of FreeBSD? We're mostly running 4.9-stable right now and it's been very > reliable. I've installed 5.2.1 on a couple of boxes with no major > problems, but they also haven't been heavily loaded. Personally I'd go with 5.2.1 or better to get PF & AltQ after the merge from OpenBSD... although, I'm not sure when exactly AltQ was merged... Regards, Brad Davis
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