[186467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Palmer)
Fri Dec 18 23:03:07 2015
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:23:57 +1100
From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 07:30:35PM +0300, Ahmed Munaf wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 17/12/2015 17:36, Ahmed Munaf wrote:
> >> we are using ESP 20
> >
> > You haven't said what you mean by "better". This could mean "faster" or
> > "copes with more sessions" or "cheaper". If your ISP is large, then it
> > might be "cost per user is lower" or "able to cope with the number of users".
>
> I mean by better, it handle more sessions and cheaper
At what scale? You probably won't get much cheaper than an rPi and
netfilter at home scale, but I wouldn't want to run a national ISP on one.
Also, by "cheaper" do you just mean capex, or is opex a concern?
- Matt
