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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:43:11 -0700 Beckmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is anybody here doing NAT for their customers? > > I'm looking at a situation where I may have to provide > NAPT for tens of > thousands of users and am curious as to what hardware is > being used, how > well it scales, what kind of loads it takes such as: > > throughput, > max simultaneous sessions experienced, > session establishment rates, > avg # of sessions per user, > ALGs you've found necessary, > number of sessions supported per public realm IP in > reality. > > I've done a survey of firewall, switch, and router > companies so I have > their reported numbers and I've done a bit of testing in > my lab and have > found that reported numbers do not necessarily translate > into what the > box will experience in something resembling a production > network. This > is why I'm asking this group - reality can bite! > > A second area of concern I have is how to enforce AUPs > when your users > "appearance" can be *very* transitive making tracking > back the offender > nearly impossible. > > Any small piece of help, advice, or pointer would be most > appreciated. > > Thanks most much. > Is the whole problem just a lack of address space, or is there something more you are trying to do ? Regards Marshall Eubanks > John Beckmeyer > [email protected] >
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