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From: Nils Vogels <nivo+freebsd-questions@yuckfou.org>
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Subject: Re: NAT clients behind FBSD
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:15:35PM -0700, David Bear (DB) wrote:
DB> Does anyone know how many NAT clients can be effectively served by a
DB> FBSD NAT box?  I know a lot will be determined by RAM, but I'm looking
DB> for guidelines and experience.

The largest numbers I've had working was a P2-450 with 256Mb of RAM doing
about 500 workstations in an office-setting with an E3 connection running to
it.

It worked smoothly, once set up properly.

Gr,

Nils.