Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
>
> I think I found the reason that my FreeBSD box is performing
> so poorly as a NATing router. When I do an ipnat -l to see
> what "active connections" are there on the router, a list
> about 3 pages long (using ipnat -l | more) appears. I think
> maybe it's having trouble because for every packet coming in
> and out of the router, it's got to look at that list of
> active connections for the right one to send to and from. Is
> there any way to make connections that aren't being used go
> away from the NAT faster? Thanks a lot.
Don't run unnecessary daemons.
The pcb lookups are a linear traversal, as well, and for
a large number of connections, the calllout wheel for
timers sucks.
-- Terry
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