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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Daniel Boyd wrote:
> How dangerous is it to tinker with the MAX_MASQ_APP_PORTS define
> in /usr/src/linux/include/net/masq.h? What are the ramifications
> of increasing this value? Higher memory usage? Lower/higher
> performance? I think that I might need to adjust this for my
> network...
Just make sure that the (number of ports) + (first port number) does
not exceed 65535.
Every masq table entry uses a little memory, and slows things down a
bit. If you're masquerading lots of clients, there's little else you
can do.
If a large part of your masq traffic is HTTP and/or FTP, I would
recommend you set up a Squid caching proxy on the firewall.
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