On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> } I have +/- 200 small networks (+/- 7 clients / network) to connect to
> } internet. These networks use private IP (172.27.X.X serie) and I ll
> } use masquerading to give Interney access.
> } Virtually, I must support at least 200 * 7 = 1400 connexions at the
> } same time.
> Why do you say that??
> You are assuming they all make one connection at a time, all the time?
> Masq has a limit on the number of simultaneous connections - normally 4096
> per protocol (TCP, UDP & ICMP) - this can be modified within limits by
> editing linux/include/net/ip_masq.h (however the max you could do would be
> 32K).
> } How many connexions a linux can handle at the same time with an up to
> } date hardware (Pentium and 128 MB Ram) ? is somebody already done this
> } kind of job and share its experiment ?
1400 connections... well.. I don't know how much usage you're actually
figuring per connection really... but it very much sounds like you're
talking about quite a bit more than a single machine can handle (whether it
be Linux, Sun, SGI, or whatever).
If your requirements are actually as heavy as you seem to indicate, you
probably need to be looking at quite a bit of dedicated hardware and
probably a small company worth of techs to support it. You're talking about
a small-medium ISP.
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