Re: Large scale NAT - problem resolved

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 01/28/04

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:50:37 -0800 (PST)
To: veedee@c7.campus.utcluj.ro

    On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 veedee@c7.campus.utcluj.ro wrote:

    > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:06:06PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:46:03PM +0200, veedee@c7.campus.utcluj.ro wrote:
    > > > > 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?
    > > > >
    > > > If your Internet connection is 128kbit/s, it can cope with it nicely.
    > > > One day I will write the ng_nat(4) module.
    > >
    > > actually it can cope with a LOT more than that.. We see no degredation
    > > nating a 100Mb link.. (though not fully).
    >
    > I got ~400 (was 400, now 450 this year) clients on an 100Mbps link and it
    > only works with ipnat for me :(

    we only have a few "clients" so possibly it's related to that..

    >
    > >
    > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Cheers,
    > > > --
    > > > Ruslan Ermilov
    > > > FreeBSD committer
    > > > ru@FreeBSD.org
    > > >
    > >
    >
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