Hey ,Guys We met a performance issue when Squid working with NAT ... Thanks in advance for your attention. There are two squid servers, Squid1 and Squid 2. And We use web polygraph to do the performance test. So there are another two servers, PolyClient and PolyServer. Firstly, the 4 servers were in the same vlan. We used PolyClient to send traffic to both Squid1 and Squid2. And the PolyServer could receive all http requests. All in a word, every server worked well. Secondly, we chaged the deployment. PolyClient, squid1 and Squid2 were put into the internal vlan. PolyServer was put into another external vlan. In this situation, PolyClient, Squid1 and Squid2 can not reach PolyServer directly. So we add a NAT functionality which provide the NAT in a PC between the squid server and Polyserver . . We send traffics to only one squid server. All is OK. But if we sent the traffics to the two squid servers in the same time. Some error occurred. , which come from squid1. But on the squid2 side, all is OK. part of netstat -na in squid2 output like following: tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46304 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46311 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46310 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46309 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46308 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46331 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46330 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46329 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46328 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46335 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46334 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46333 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46332 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46323 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46322 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46321 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46320 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46327 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46326 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46325 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46324 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46283 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46282 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46281 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46280 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46329 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46328 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46335 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46334 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46333 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46332 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46323 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46285 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT tcp 0 1 198.18.24.3:46284 10.56.233.99:9999 SYN_SENT .. tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:33454 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:34222 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:34478 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:35758 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:34990 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:35246 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:36526 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:37294 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:38830 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:38062 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:39342 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:39598 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:40878 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:40110 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:41902 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:41390 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 198.18.24.3:9001 198.18.255.1:42926 ESTABLISHED ..... We check the connections on squid1, [root@squid1 ~]# cat /proc/net/sockstat sockets: used 40107 TCP: inuse 40020 orphan 0 tw 3 alloc 40028 mem 20034 UDP: inuse 18 RAW: inuse 0 FRAG: inuse 0 memory 0 Then We did the functional test in the same enviorment : We found out Squid 1( 198.18.24.3 ) has sent lots of SYN_SENT to Polyserver (10.56.233.99) to try to estiblish TCP , but no response from polyserver side , so the squid1 to webpolygraph client (198.18.255.1) have to keep the TCP connection . all these connection make the squid1 server keep lots of TCP connection. (Very abnormal state) Looking forward your suggestion . Thanks, -Arkin