Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:06:06 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large scale NAT - problem resolved Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0401281304540.6703-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20040128205349.GH11253@FreeBSD.org.ua>
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Andriy Korud wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > It'd be really interesting to see how natd would handle such a load.... > > > > > > > You must be kidding. ;) > > > > Agreed. NATd "crashes" with 400 clients on AMD Athlon 900Mhz. :( ipnat > > works fine. > > > > 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? > > > If your Internet connection is 128kbit/s, it can cope with it nicely. > One day I will write the ng_nat(4) module. actually it can cope with a LOT more than that.. We see no degredation nating a 100Mb link.. (though not fully). > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov > FreeBSD committer > ru@FreeBSD.org >
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