Not sure what you mean by SNAT. There doesn't seem to be any NAT involved,
I get a public IP and I use it to host services. You can't plug more than
one device into each port of the NBN device, it's not a router.

On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Noah O'Donoghue wrote:
> > I've got 100/40 NBN with iinet..
> >
> > I just used my old Asus rt-n16.. NBN gives you a plain old Ethernet with
> > DHCP. No auth. Simple as.
>
> Well, DHCP (and SNAT?) is a bit gratuitous for a point-to-point link.
> I can understand why they do it, though.
> Fewer derps from their non-technical customers.
>
> > However, I tried latest openwrt trunk on my router.. Worked great but
> > limited the speed to about 40Mbps.
> >
> > Turns out the native firmware uses 'hardware NAT' which works much
> better..
> > (Wire speed, 95/38 on speedtest.net). Unfortunately the native firmware
> is
> > full of bugs..
> >
> > This hardware NAT is a part of broadcoms binary blob, is a hack, and it's
> > unlikely you'll get it to work on any open firmwares. I suspect you may
> > have trouble with NBN on any router running open firmware, unless the CPU
> > is ridiculously over powered.
>
> Interesting and horrible.
>
> I am surprised the system can't handle at least 100mbps doing NATting
> in netfilter -- NAT state is not terribly expensive to maintain.
>
> Worst case, of course, you can just put down an x86-64 whitebox
> desktop as your bastion router, and relegate the WRT to doing only
> switching & wifi AP.  If the bottleneck really is the CPU, that'll fix
> it.
>
> Hmm... NT-R16 is a 480MHz BCM4718, WNDR3800 is a 680MHz AR7161.
> Are they of comparable speed?
>
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