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From: Feizhou <feizhou@linuxmail.org>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: NAT performance
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:52:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428494FF.9020707@linuxmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505131038510.2119@blackhole.kfki.hu>

Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005, Christophe SUIRE wrote:
> 
> 
>>This not a problem with the network card, because when i do the test
>>with only firewall routing i have a total bandwidth used near to
>>500Mbit/s.
>>But when i add an SNAT translation for each network (10) the total
>>bandwidth used is near 170Mbit/s.
>>So why this important difference without an with NAT ??
> 
> 
> NAT *is* expensive. Have a look at the paper on netfilter performance
> tests and comparisons at http://people.netfilter.org/kadlec/nftest.pdf

the ip_conntrack module sucks. Lovely cpu chewer.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-13 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-12 21:24 NAT performance Christophe SUIRE
2005-05-13  0:03 ` Taylor, Grant
2005-05-13  7:16   ` Christophe SUIRE
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505130423320.5558@darkstar.sysinfo.com>
2005-05-13  8:33       ` Christophe SUIRE
2005-05-13  9:22         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-05-13  9:51           ` Christophe SUIRE
2005-05-13  9:57             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-05-13 10:14               ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2005-05-13 10:19                 ` Christophe SUIRE
2005-05-13 10:18               ` Christophe SUIRE
2005-05-13 11:52           ` Feizhou [this message]

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