[100791] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Fri Nov 9 16:18:41 2007
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:13:27 -0500
From: "Lamar Owen" <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47336295.2000400@personnelware.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 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.
I'm able to get 45Mb/s through a P3-800 with a four-port NIC running NAT and
simple content filtering with SmoothWall Advanced Firewall 2 easily. Have a
box doing that right now.
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Lamar Owen
Chief Information Officer
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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