topic Re: CPU Load Bcoz of NATing ? in Operating System - Linux

CPU Load Bcoz of NATing ?

Bejoy C Alias — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:25:56 GMT

We are planning to connect one of the server in our branch office to the internet for remote access . This branch office is connected to our main office through leased line and we have fixed internet line with 15 public IPs in our main office , one of which we will use for NATing to this branch office server . Anybody can tell me whether there will be any impact on the load of the machine which we will use for NATing ?

Re: CPU Load Bcoz of NATing ?

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:18:03 GMT

Normally, NATing does not generates considerable load on the server, we have have a minimal load on our Internet server. But you should not connect to the Internet a server that is used for storing user data or application data.

Re: CPU Load Bcoz of NATing ?

Arunvijai_4 — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:19:47 GMT

Hi Bejoy,

NATing built into Linux Kernel and it wont hog-up your CPU(s). You can go ahead and use NATing.Also make sure you have latest kernel with all patches installed and running properly.

-Arun

Re: CPU Load Bcoz of NATing ?

Delrish — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:14:22 GMT

I had a PC (Pentium 3-800 Mhz with 512 MB memory) in my network. It acted as nat server and firewall simultaneously. I had 300 users and about 4 Mb/s bandwidth. There was no any problem and everything was perfect.Nating does not need a fast CPU. However be aware of among od memory on your server.

Re: CPU Load Bcoz of NATing ?

Bejoy C Alias — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:39:03 GMT

Thanks to all....