Re: (ASCEND) Max number on NAT

To: Jim Howard <jhoward@lyceum.com>
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Max number on NAT
From: Lim Fung <limfung@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:02:39 +0800 (SGT)
cc: David Routh <ascend@davlin.net>, ascend-users@max.bungi.com
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jim Howard wrote:

> At 18:33 1998/06/26 -0500, David Routh wrote:
> >or, in other words... can a p75 running NAT satisify 15 - 20 stations ALL
> >surfing at the same time?
> 
> can it do it? yes, absolutely. however your performance
> will be inversely proportional to the number of clients
> and the number of different things that each one is trying to do.
> 
> If they've never used the line in normal (non-NAT) mode,
> they'll probably never notice the difference, 
> as it will still seem faster than a modem...

If all the users are surfing similiar web sites (e.g. in the classroom
scenario) then a proxy-cache will help and squid
(http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/) would be an excellent solution.

rgds,

-Lim Fung

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