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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