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Date:      Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:25:40 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: slow NAT ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101011224320.21348-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20001231124602.01d21878@marble.sentex.net>

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> 
> I upgraded my home firewall today to sources as of last night and noticed 
> that traffic via NAT is rather slow.  For example, an ftp from a machine 
> being nat'd I guess about 300Kbps.  From the FreeBSD box, I get about 1Mb 
> on my DSL connection.  If I use squid or a proper proxy, its not an 
> issue.  This is both with the built in NAT on PPP and NATD by itself.  Any 
> ideas as to how to track this down ?
> 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 30 09:37:21 EST 2000
> Its only a CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU) with 96M of RAM.

Was it that slow before the upgrade?
As a workaround you can use ipnat which performs NAT in kernel-space
rather than in user-space (as libalias does).

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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