Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:01:31 -0400 From: Evan Tsoukalas <evan@sourcee.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NATd load question Message-ID: <20000623120131.B14899@sourcee.com>
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Hello,
I've been running natd on a -CURRENT FreeBSD box for several
months now to share my cable modem between the four computers on
my home network. It's been a rather painless experience, and even
during fairly heavy server loads (make buildworld's), there isn't
any real noticeable degradation in performance.
I now need to look into a large scale natd implementation for
work (250+ computers), so I went to the archives to see if
someone had posted about a natd implementation of that size.
After browsing through a lot of posts, I noticed that the question
has come up several times, but I couldn't, for the life of me, find
an answer.
So, has anyone used natd for a 200+ computer network? If so,
what did your hardware config look like? Any tips?
Also, during my search, I saw a post in early April stating that
the standard ipfw config for natd
ipfw -q flush
ipfw add 100 divert natd ip from any to any via $natd_interface
ipfw add 200 allow ip from any to any
places a lot of load on the server by sending local packets that
don't need translation to the daemon anyway. Does anyone have
any suggestions on how to do this better?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
Regards,
Evan Tsoukalas
Systems Administrator
Source Electronics Corporation
evan@sourcee.com
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