[CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway
David Hrbác(
hrbac.conf at seznam.cz
Mon Sep 10 06:03:12 UTC 2007
Bart Schaefer napsal(a):
> I can't find any recent statistics for Linux NAT performance, but the
> older stuff I can find (e.g. 50k packets/sec for a P3-450Mhz) seems to
> indicate that the gateway should easily be up to the task of handling
> the NAT traffic. Am I wrong about this? Is there any way to diagnose
> whether the NAT is the bottleneck? Would we benefit from upgrading to
> a newer CentOS (2.6 kernel as opposed to 2.4)? Or is it more likely
> to be the switch, in which case what would be a recommended
> replacement for the Linksys?
Bart,
how many connections are on the router (/proc/net/ip_conntrack) ? And
what's the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
David
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