Re: NAT and traffic shaping

From: Brad Davis (so14k_at_so14k.com)
Date: 04/13/04

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:07:13 -0600

    On Monday 12 April 2004 8:16 am, Richard J Kuhns wrote:
    > We have a customer (an apartment complex) who wants us to deploy a
    > FreeBSD box that will handle NAT for 400 to 600 machines (so figure
    > multiple connections per machine) and that can handle a steady 12 to 15
    > Mb of ethernet traffic, both directions. I'm sure we'll also want to do
    > some traffic shaping. Would anyone care to offer
    > suggestions/recommendations/horror stories about implementing this?
    > Specifically, how hefty a box should we use (RAM/CPU), and which version
    > of FreeBSD? We're mostly running 4.9-stable right now and it's been very
    > reliable. I've installed 5.2.1 on a couple of boxes with no major
    > problems, but they also haven't been heavily loaded.

    Personally I'd go with 5.2.1 or better to get PF & AltQ after the merge from
    OpenBSD... although, I'm not sure when exactly AltQ was merged...

    Regards,
    Brad Davis
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