NAT performance tweaks

[Eric Anderson]

veedee at c7.campus.utcluj.ro wrote:
[..snip..]
> If you have a large network behind your NAT server, defining LARGE_NAT in
> src/contrib/ipfilter/ip_nat.h and src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_nat.h
> might help. Don't forget to recompile the kernel and ipfilter.
> 
> Strange enough, I used to have huge pings (up to 80ms in a totally switched
> gigabit network) after a few hours of utilization before fiddling with
> LARGE_NAT.

What would you call a "large network"?

Is "LARGE_NAT" something that is able to be made into a sysctl tweak 
(and if so, should it be?)?

Eric




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Eric Anderson	   Systems Administrator      Centaur Technology
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