On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 19:47, Tomasz Paszkowski wrote:
> I'am running a preety big network (about 2k users) with a private addresses.
> I've been using natd + ipfw for ages and I really like it. But I've run into
> performance problems. Machine with PIV 1.7Ghz can't afford translating
> such a pig pool of connections (huge slow down of transfer). Does any one
> have seen any patches improving natd performacne ?

Isn't the correct answer to this "ipf + ipnat"?  You'll never be able to
get rid of the performance hit from all the context switching for NATted
packets when using natd.

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