Large scale NAT - problem resolved

[veedee at c7.campus.utcluj.ro]

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?
 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ruslan Ermilov
> FreeBSD committer
> ru at FreeBSD.org

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