Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 1997 12:52:05 -0700 (MST) | | From | seth <> | | Subject | Re: Masquerade: Any large network limits? |
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On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Jacques Gelinas wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Patrick Main wrote: > > > > > I have been asked how many users can be masqueraded > > with ONE linux server. This would be with kernel 2.0.33 > > with ethernet only connections and connected via T1 to > > the Internet. > > > > At a local college i have a small intranet with about 60 > > machines <three student labs> running through a similar setup. > > This has worked very well. Now there's a possibility of running > > an entire county schoool district through a similar setup. > > > > With a recent Pentium box and of course PCI controllers "all" > > Is there a memory problem although will probably have 64 Megs > > Net cards will be Tulip based and probably Buslogic scsi. > > > > Major question is how many connections can linux masq "reliably" > > ie: 1000 connects? what about 5000? > > Would like to hear from anyone masquerading a large network and > > there real life results. > > > > We are considering using one machine for the entire district or > > if this is bad then multiple machines with a school or two assigned to > > each box. Hence the question of: what are reasonable expectations of > > one box handling? > > I have no precise numbers, but one site I help manage have a single DX4 > with 8 megs acting as firewall and masquerading box for a 32 schools. > > They are connected to the internet using a 256k link (which is incredibly > overload). They will go to a T1. I don't expect the DX4 to change > > As far as I know, this machine pretty much do nothing: Almost idle all the > time. > > A small but important detail. They are using a proxy for web and this > proxy is going through the DX4 but is not masqueraded. > > For such a project anyway, I would go for a masquerading host + a > transparent proxy with squid on the same server. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca) > Linuxconf: The ultimate administration system for Linux. > see http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf > new developments: remote GUI admin, multiple machines admin > > > >
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