From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 13:52:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.sourcee.com (falcon1.sourcee.com [12.11.130.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724D637B73D for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evan@sourcee.com) Received: (from evan@localhost) by falcon.sourcee.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA20175 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:01:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:01:31 -0400 From: Evan Tsoukalas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NATd load question Message-ID: <20000623120131.B14899@sourcee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: email message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message