Re: [9fans] nat

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> most people have plenty of power to spare on their cpu
> servers and feeding a dsl modem at < 10mbit/sec is really
> trivial these days.  were you thinking of natting >1gbit?

Needless to say, very capable (Linux-based) DSL modems with highly
configurable built-in switch, router, NAT, and firewal are dirt cheap. Why
not use one? Use D-Link and you can buy two for the price of one ;-) If you
are brand-sensitive try Linksys or Netgear, though they are known to be
picky.

In case you insist on implementing NAT I assure you that you have at least
one intent reader for any comments on how implementing NAT on Plan 9
differs from UNIX clones.

--On Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:49 AM -0500 erik quanstrom
<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

>> Running NAT at user level would, assuming I'm not totally off base, be
>> quite expensive and the hardware on which it runs would have to be
>> pretty powerful.
>
> most people have plenty of power to spare on their cpu
> servers and feeding a dsl modem at < 10mbit/sec is really
> trivial these days.  were you thinking of natting >1gbit?
>
> - erik
>