Never seen a lot of people behind NAT so I don't know what you would see. If you're concerned about socket capacity you can srcnat different IP ranges to a different public IP.
On 9/29/09, Matt Larsen - Lists <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We've been doing some troubleshooting of some occasional issues with > NATed customers and started to wonder if we have reached the limits of > what we can do with a single NAT server. > > Right now, I have one NAT server that has two Internet backbone > connections coming into it. This server is running StarOS. We have > about 1700 subs NATted behind a single IP address on this server. > > Behind it, I have a Mikrotik server that is handling all traffic coming > into that server from the private network side. Looking at the > IP/Firewall/Connections listing on this server, I see 69000-71000 items > in the list. My lead tech is concerned that we only have 65536 ports > to use on a single IP address, and we might be using all of them and > having connection issues. > > Anyone on the list more versed in Mikrotik/Linux/routing etc that might > be able to shed some light on this? > > Thanks! > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
