As a more specific question for any Linux users out there, would a NAT based
firewall/router to handle a 128KBit ISDN connection running on a Pentium 233
with 96 MB RAM handle the load ?
Cheers,
Greg.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henrik Bergstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, 17 May 1999 19:23
>To: Greg Bastian
>Subject: RE: [long] Re: NAT and firewalls
>
>
>On Fri, 14 May 1999, Greg Bastian wrote:
>> What is the maximum number of connections possible to one
>specific port ?
>>
>> If I have 10 Web servers behind one NAT address, with
>requests load balanced
>> among the 10 machines, is there a limit to the number of connections
>> possible to those ten machines, versus having the
>connections to the 10
>> machines directly ?
>
>A reply on the list stated that the bottleneck is the machine
>running the
>NAT/load balancing software and that is exactly so. As long as
>the machine
>is capable of handling the full capacity of your Internet connection,
>there is no problem.
>
>So, there are no theoretical limits to the number of connections, only
>practical ones (speed and memory capacity of the firewall.) This is
>because no TCP ports are allocated in the FW, since it is only used for
>``redirection.''
>
>/Henrik
>
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