-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Okay. As nobody answered my question - except one in private - i'll try to rephrase it. So.. there is a dormitory about 400+ students in it. They are always like to play games on net, and when one starts something like GameSpy it connects to a whole bunch of servers on all kinds of ports, and it is just ONE user, and not to mention other p2p programs like DC, Emule, Bittorrent, etc. Than you can imagine what happens when 100 or more users want to play online at the same time -> it eats up lots of port on the NAT box (all of the ports). and this is where the problem lies. The documenation on NAT is great (http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO.html) but it is good when you have only few machines, or lots of machines but not with gamers, downloaders.... Why isn't there any documentation on how linux handles free, and occupied ports on a NAT box, how to fine tune the box when lots of user are behind it, etc..? So my question is: How to handle this situation? I mean, just 1 NAT linux box is able to handle all the 400+ users with the above situations? Or we have to do something like CONNLIMIT on source ips? Is there possibilities to balance the traffic on 2 or more NAT box? thx. - -- You can find my public PGP key here: Tu peux trouver mon public PGP clef ici: A nyilvanos PGP kulcsomat innen tudod letolteni: http://koli.kando.hu/dexter/publickey.asc http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBC788404 . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDsWpXd/8YWbx4hAQRAjxgAJ9Zw/hBW2NBYU2D4HXhKHfWMDvOAgCgocEs CDrM5sU1HYUeBmrNgyhNHGQ= =9w4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
