#11779: WDR4300 - hardware nat feature
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Reporter: jozsig2ATg-mailDOTcom | Owner: developers
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: Barrier Breaker 14.07
Component: kernel | Version: Trunk
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: wdr4300 ar8327n
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Comment (by anonymous):
Replying to [comment:95 robnitro@…]:
> Oh and the person that posted about 10 Gbps internet... what kind of NIC
would be able to handle that? You do know that Gigabit nics top out at
around 800-900 mbit realistically (with overhead, etc) on a LAN!?
>
> So, tell me how are you planning to link to a 10G WAN? I can understand
if it were a fiber directly in, and 10 fully dedicated Gigabit ports, but
otherwise, you are talking some future ware that is way beyond any scope
of even normal home LANs.
If you plan to use 10Gbps you dont use a 1Gbps NIC. Or a 1Gbps switch.
10Gbps at home is not really worth it yet, but cost is not *completely*
whack anymore with the latest generation of equipment.
> I have 75/75 mbit fiber, and even then I cannot always saturate my
connection because most web providers have more than ONE customer at a
time... lol
I rarely have a download go slower than 500Mbps. Youtube and Akamai has no
problems handing me ~600Mbps. Torrents often 8-900Mbps. FTP mirrors within
the same country or some euro contries ~930Mbps. Transferring data to/from
work at about 930-940 Mbps. I have not checked what Netflix is up to, but
pre-buffering is never going on for more than 1 second, even for Ultra-HD.
Thats on fiber to the home in Norway, fwiw. Some areas have 10 Gbps
available for residential, but that tier costs both your arms, both your
legs and your first born at the moment, so I doubt any residential
customer has dared to take the leap ;-)
I'm using a mini-itx i3 computer as gateway. It does gigabit routing/NAT
in software, no problems. No ugly hardware "nat offload" required if the
hardware is sufficiently fast. I think it could run OpenWRT too.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/11779#comment:96>
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