[100772] in North American Network Operators' Group
cpu needed to NAT 45mbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Karsten)
Thu Nov 8 14:25:14 2007
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:25:09 -0600
From: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I do the networking in my house, and hang out with guys that do networking in
small offices that have a few T1s. Now I am talking to people about a DS3
connection for 500 laptops*, and I am bing told "a p4 linux box with 2 nics
doing NAT will not be able to handle the load." I am not really qualified to
say one way or the other. I bet someone here is.
* for wifi, going to be using this system:
http://wavonline.com/vendorpages/extricom.htm
March 13-17 (testing a week or 2 before) for PyCon in Chicago.
If anyone wants to see it in action, etc. drop me a line.
Carl K
