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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: "Niels Möller" <nisse@southpole.se>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Subject: Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 07:58:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53808957.7020906@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6zlhtsvnqp.fsf@southpole.se>

On 05/23/14 05:38, Niels Möller wrote:
> Hi,
>


>     Main drawback of using NAT is the overhead for connection tracking;
>     it would be preferable if the only per-connection state needed is the
>     socket itself.
>

If stateless nat is sufficient take a look at tc nat.

cheers,
jamal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-24 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-23  9:38 What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses? Niels Möller
2014-05-23 10:11 ` Florian Westphal
2014-05-23 10:49   ` Lukas Tribus
2014-05-23 12:26   ` Niels Möller
2014-05-23 14:12   ` Niels Möller
2014-05-23 12:53 ` sowmini varadhan
2014-05-23 14:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-24 12:06     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-05-23 22:39 ` Cong Wang
2014-05-26  6:39   ` Niels Möller
2014-05-24 11:58 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2014-05-24 14:44   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-24 15:13     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-05-24 16:02       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-24 17:54         ` David Miller
2014-05-24 18:30         ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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